Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, Harris has come a long way by being aggressive. The daughter of a railroad dining-car waiter and a civil servant mother, she finished first in her class at George Washington University Law School. She taught at Howard University Law School, joined a top Washington law firm, served on the boards of IBM, Scott Paper and Chase Manhattan, worked in Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign and became U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. But when a liberal Senator once implied that she was a member of the privileged class, she indignantly replied: "While there may be others who forget what...
Friends of Civiletti, 44, a prematurely graying father of three teenagers, do not disagree with that self-effacing assessment. It is the professionalism of the soft-spoken New York-born lawyer that his colleagues at the Justice Department most admire. He had been personally plucked out of a successful law practice in Baltimore by Georgian Charles Kirbo, President Carter's top preInauguration adviser, to head the department's criminal division. In his service there, Civiletti won praise as a "lawyers' lawyer" who believed in strong preparation for building criminal cases that would stand up in court...
Volcker, nominated by President Carter on Wednesday, is known as a believer in "sound money," and as a fiscal conservative who would probably accept temporary increases in the numbers of unemployed if he could decrease the rate of inflation, Warren Law, Converse Professor of Finance and Banking, said yesterday...
...choice came down to slower growth and rising unemployment or higher inflation, most conservatives would opt for increased unemployment and lower inflation," Law said yesterday...
...fiscal policy which causes higher unemployment would probably conflict with White House desires in an election year, Law said. However, "it seems a traditional role for the Federal Reserve Board to be in conflict with the White House," he added...