Word: jr
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President Reagan also met with Helms to reassure him about the nomination. Reagan also chatted amiably with Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., who led the successful fight to defeat the first nominee for the court vacancy, Robert H. Bork. Reagan's second nominee, appellate judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, asked the president to withdraw his name last Saturday after Ginsburg's admission of past marijuana...
White House representatives, including Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III and presidential staff chief Howard H. Baker Jr., pushed hard Thursday to lower the tax bite from about $10 billion that was being discussed and gain more control over which levies would be raised...
This year incumbent Timothy J. Toomey Jr. won the most votes, raking in 3182 "number-ones," and passing the quota of 3215 votes needed to win after the third count, in which losing candidate Donna Brescia's votes were transferred...
Members of the group said they could not wait a week for the City Council's attention because they feared MIT would try to evict them during the coming week. Some blamed Mayor Walter J. Sullivan Jr. for postponing the hearing until next week, because last night's agenda was too long...
...amendment, presented by Senator Arthur J. Lewis, Jr. (D-Boston), would make it illegal for employers and landlords to inquire about the sexual orientation of a prospective employee or tenant. The amendment, however, does not explicitly state that it is illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation...