Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Though the A.M.A. admits the procedure may have gone awry in Patrick's case, it would have preferred a resolution at the state level rather than through federal antitrust laws. Antitrust damages are especially painful because they come out of a doctor's own pocket, notes A.M.A. General Counsel Kirk Johnson. "Antitrust is the atom bomb of lawsuits...
...among those who consider alcoholism a disease, they argued, "the consumption of alcohol is not regarded as wholly involuntary." Though the decision is not expected to affect medical-insurance benefits or hospital treatment of alcoholism, medical experts and alcoholics' groups were dismayed. "I think the decision is wrong," said Kirk Johnson of the American Medical Association. "To say that primary alcoholism is equivalent to willful misconduct is an anachronism...
...candidacy. The Southern regional primary that was at the core of Super Tuesday was designed to lay the groundwork for a moderate nominee who could carry Dixie. Instead, Jackson vaulted into contention by capturing roughly one-third of the Southern delegates. In the weeks before Michigan, Party Chairman Paul Kirk tried to grease the way for Dukakis by arguing that whoever was ahead when the primaries were over was entitled to the nomination, even if he was far short of the 2,082 delegates needed to win. It was always an odd theory: anointing a candidate who failed...
Democratic Party Chairman Paul Kirk also sidestepped that question Sunday when interviewed on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley" program...
...haven't nominated anyone yet," Kirk said. "The Democratic Party will do its best to nominate, I hope, the most electable candidate in order to win in November...