Word: mercier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thomas E. Mercier, president of the union, said one major grievance was that Johnson was "not responsive" to union attempts to discuss labor problems within the department...
Another such issue concerns charges of racial discrimination and harassment which were leveled against the Harvard police last year by minority students. Mercier said that Johnson's support for the officers involved was insufficient...
Perhaps underlying Runcie's long-term view for the future is a 1920s proposal by Belgium's Desire Cardinal Mercier that Anglicanism be "united, not absorbed." This would leave the Archbishop of Canterbury as patriarch of a group that would come under the papacy but retain control of its liturgy and canon law. Still, no sort of reunion-Runcie's flexibility aside-could occur without similar flexibility from Rome...
...ultimate defeat of Germany. I wrote as if I did not know who would win.") An advocate of "corraborative detail," she uncovers and utilizes insignificant facts to crystallize the details of a scene and make the reader feel a part of it. ("When I was investigating General Mercier, the Minister of War who was responsible for the original condemnation of Dreyfus and who in the course of the Affair became the hero of the Right, I discovered that at parties of the haut monde ladies rose to their feet when General Mercier entered the room. That is the kind...