Word: johnson
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...alcoholism as "willful misconduct" rather than a sickness. The VA's definition prevents alcoholics from receiving benefit extensions awarded to veterans with illnesses. In seeking to make their case, the plaintiffs' lawyers are expected to bring up the new evidence that alcoholism may have a genetic basis. Says Kirk Johnson, general counsel for the A.M.A., which filed an amicus brief in the case: "We want a medical judgment, not a ruling based on fear, misunderstanding and prejudice...
Those prisoners, who had at first demanded to remain in the United States and not be prosecuted for the riot and hostagetaking, were demanding outright freedom on yesterday, said Warden J.R. Johnson...
...third to be announced next month. George Mason University has attracted 35 scholars in the past five years with pay of $60,000 to $123,000 (vs. a national average of around $45,000 for a tenured professor). Poised to nab 20 more academic stars, Mason President George Johnson demurs: "Raiding isn't the right phrasing; it's selective development...
...Lyndon Johnson knew how to compromise better than anyone. Clifford, L.B.J.'s Secretary of Defense, remembers March 31, 1968, when Johnson tried to cut his last and biggest deal with Washington. He went on the air to "speak to you of peace" not war. It was the end of escalation in Viet Nam. Washington, with its peace marchers, Senate harangues, angry poets, editorial cartoons and leaky colonels, had stopped him. He left for the ranch because he knew enough to know he had to yield...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Stephen Koepp, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, J.D. Reed, Thomas A. Sancton, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, Anastasia Toufexis, Claudia Wallis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...