Word: nixonize
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...companies that have begun to change their work climate recognize the advantage in making use of the forty-six percent of the workforce who are women. Rather, as tends to be the case, a cultural stagnancy with a long legacy is to blame. As late as 1971, Richard Nixon vetoed a bill to create a national child-care system, deeming it a threat to the American family...
...that probably would have cost him his life without his 2004 bypass surgery were a long-in-coming slap in the face, waking him up to his problem and to the way he could parlay it into some public good. If it took an old red hunter like Richard Nixon to go to China, perhaps it would take an old chowhound like Clinton to go to war against junk foods...
...Thrifty Big Spender Caspar Weinberger, who died March 28, earned the nickname "Cap the Knife" for slashing budgets in the Nixon and Ford administrations. But TIME's July 27, 1981, cover story explained how, as President Ronald Reagan's Defense Secretary, Weinberger oversaw the rebuilding of the U.S. military-a project that cost a record $2 trillion...
...stand also got bad marks from courtroom observers. Lay accused the prosecutor, for example, of "mincing words" and making bizarre assumptions that made no business sense. "Lay is not helping himself by being so contentious, and frankly, arrogant," says Wynne. "He speaks with the cadence of Richard Nixon...
...Like Nixon, Lay's face naturally falls into a frown. On the stand, his brows drew together. His tongue flicked back and forth hitting the corners of his mouth. He tried to win the jury over during direct examination by talking about the three paper routes he had growing up and summers laboring on farms in Missouri. Lay, once a multimillionaire, also testified that he now drives a 13-year-old car and all his savings are gone...