Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Urban Development field office got 25 names through the Civil Service roster to fill several temporary clerk-typist positions for a year. The office superintendent, a white man, selected seven people (four women and three men) from nine applicants, all of whom were black. One of the rejected applicants, Mr. P., on probation for assault, complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office that he had been the victim of race and sex discrimination. The superintendent admitted that he had rejected F. because of his criminal record. F. was given one year's employment retroactively because, it was reasoned, blacks...
...cowboy movie, it is never hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys in this book. Everyone mentioned wears an adjective, and wears it, and wears it, until it is worn out. Subtlety is not the problem with Mr. DiMona's style. Perhaps there was so little time to correct the proofs and get the books into the stores that Bob Haldeman just shrugged at these quirks of the writer's fancy and left them in. It was only after the book was set in type that Haldeman began making the necessary final corrections. By then, no doubt...
...mint signed Ford last year to select the events?which include Ford's own Bicentennial address?and edit the accompanying texts. The ex-President's aide, Robert Barrett, would not disclose the fee, but he did point out, "Mr. Ford believes in the free-enterprise system." Considering some recent examples of huckstering by ex-politicians, such as the American Express endorsements by Watergate Senator Sam Ervin and onetime Vice-Presidential Candidate William ("Remember me?") Miller. Ford's venture might be said to have its sterling qualities. There is nothing shoddy about the product: a set of the medals in silver...
...type of society we have at present give an affirmative response. Moreover, other polls show that the voters place more confidence for the management of their economy in the present government than in the opposition. A poll in the [leftist weekly] Nouvel Observateur indicates that I lead Mr. Mitterrand by twelve points on confidence in the management of the economy and, still more interesting, that I even lead him among those earning the minimum wage...
Coglin, a stellar freshman distance swimmer whose fantastic performances this season have been somewhat overshadowed by those of the phenomenal Mr. Hackett, put on quite a show of his own in last night's first event, the 400-yd. individual medley. Coglin streaked to victory with a time of 4:04.27, which qualifies him for the NCAA Championships at Long Beach, California, later this month...