Word: offender
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Sources in University Hall said last week that Rosovsky revised the letter several times and discussed it with the Faculty Council before sending it out last week in order not to offend anyone by the tone of the letter or when the task force proposals are discussed...
...Eisenhower and Gerald Ford for giving-by default -too large a policy role to Congress. Nonetheless, Congress is not likely to stop trying to influence strongly foreign policy or to change the Administration's proposed budgets. To get some of his programs through Congress, particularly those that will offend special-interest groups-many Government employees, for example, will not like his Government reorganization plans-Carter may have to compromise. He often finds that hard. As Governor, when his programs ran into trouble with the legislature, he end-ran his opponents by making televised appeals for public support...
...only trouble was that the parties involved-the white Rhodesians, the black Rhodesians, the five "frontline" Presidents of Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana and Angola-had sharply differing ideas of what the conference was supposed to accomplish. "Rowlands and Schaufele seemed to be trying not to offend or differ with anyone," said a Western diplomat in Tanzania. "Their idea seems to be to get a conference going, and then hope that things will work out simply because everyone is in one room...
...example: Observer reporters spent 21 months digging through expense vouchers at the Southern Bell Telephone Co.; so far, eleven executives have been indicted for cheating the utility. The paper's support of school busing has not pleased many readers, but Editor Reese Cleghorn's sensitive editorials rarely offend. That editorial-page task is left to Doug Marlette, 26, whose tough cartoons are syndicated to 80 dailies. Lately, Executive Editor David Lawrence has invited local businessmen to sit in on editorial meetings. "We're not afraid of criticism," he says. "I want this paper to reflect the ideas...
...year led to suits by the county and a nearby town. No Texas legislator on TM's biennial "ten best" list has ever been defeated, while 40% of those listed among the "ten worst" are out of office. Says Levy: "We've managed to offend everybody, and we've gotten away with...