Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French citizen and the son of a Resistance fighter. I was appalled to read that there is concern about grouping the Jewish victims together with the Resistance fighters. Barbie killed, tortured and deported many non-Jewish French in the same cruel manner as he did the Jews...
...Robert Hormats, a vice president of the Goldman Sachs investment firm and an economic adviser in four Administrations: "The markets have made a mistake if they think the White House may have more influence on the Fed. It will be the other way around." Hormats' reasoning: Volcker's commanding manner and banker's jargon may have been off-putting to Reagan. Greenspan, on the other hand, has a gift for rendering economic concepts in the kind of uncomplicated language beloved by the folksy President. Greenspan may try to coax Reagan, for example, to accept a tax increase in the fight...
...overseers grew into a matter of great concern in the 1880's. The Harvard Club of New York led a long and successful campaign to place a member on the ballot--the first to come from outside metropolitan Boston. Such nominations, few as they were, were hampered by the manner of election: at the time voters had to be present at Commencement ceremonies to participate in the overseer selection process. This rule was soon changed to allow alumni to vote by mail--an innovation that greatly expanded the geographical variety of the overseers...
...Mike was the first real live elected politician we engaged with in a serious manner. When I hired him there was less than unanimous enthusiasm in the faculty. In fact, there was substantial opposition," Allison says. "But I hired him because I saw Dukakis as an unusual person with great creativity of mind," he says...
...dedicated and loyal secretary and performed my duties in an exemplary manner," she said...