Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration. Not until last week did he announce the last of his 14 Cabinet appointments, but then his choice drew much praise. His selection: retired Admiral James Watkins, 60, an expert on nuclear power, former Chief of Naval Operations and once a long-shot prospect to become father-in-law of Britain's Prince Charles (Watkins' daughter Laura Jo had a romance with the Prince before marrying an American actor). Watkins' last Government job was as head of Ronald Reagan's AIDS commission; he showed a gift for drawing agreement from people with very diverse views by coaxing a surprisingly...
...interviews than the thoroughly programmed Carson. He threw Chevy Chase off balance with a question about his draft status during the Viet Nam War and asked Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth about beer drinking at the ballpark. When actor Charlie Sheen alluded to a past run-in with the law, Sajak politely refrained from pressing ahead but at least seemed aware of why. "I wouldn't want to * break a time-honored talk-show tradition and ask a follow-up question," he cracked. What's encouraging is that Sajak gives the impression that someday he might...
Carlson found her way to Washington under the inspiration of consumer advocate Ralph Nader. She wrote a book called How to Get Your Car Repaired Without Getting Gypped. The best-selling paperback financed law school and eventually led Carlson to reporting and editing stints at the Washington Weekly, Esquire magazine and the New Republic. Joining TIME last year, Carlson started right off writing about the 1988 campaign, including stories on the presidential conventions. She had, she recalls, no trouble trading law for the fourth estate. "A lawyer works on cases that won't be settled for years," says Carlson. "TIME...
...trillion budget that President Reagan sent to Congress last week presages the coming battle by pointedly rejecting the need to increase any taxes to cut the projected 1990 deficit of $127 billion to the $100 billion required by the Gramm-Rudman law. Instead, the Reagan budget proposes to accomplish that in part by eliminating 82 federal programs, all of which Congress has defended in past budgets. While Democrats dismissed the Reagan document as "irrelevant," since President-elect Bush plans to submit a revised version by Feb. 20, the incoming Administration is unlikely to embrace a tax increase until it becomes...
...response to incidents like this, Congress has banned employers' use of polygraph tests, voice-stress analysis and other electronic methods to screen current or prospective workers. The law, which went into effect Dec. 27, exempts government agencies and such workers as armored-car guards and employees who have access to restricted drugs...