Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KENNETH PARKINSON...
...pursuing Stans' countersuit, Lawyer Kenneth Wells Parkinson said that he served the subpoenas to learn about any libelous statements that Democrats may have made about Republicans during last year's presidential campaign. So broad was the information demanded by the subpoenas that Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee commented: "They've asked for everything except the lint in our pockets...
Died. James Henle, 81, longtime president of Vanguard Press (1928-52) and first publisher of some of his generation's best-known authors, including Saul Bellow (Dangling Man, The Victim), James T. Farrell (Studs Lonigan trilogy), Dr. Seuss and Mystery Writer Rex Stout; of Parkinson's disease; in Arlington...
...General Assembly seems to arrive in Geneva with its own subagency. It has been like the mighty unleashing of the deepest, darkest bureaucratic instincts of six continents, 132 countries and all the races of man, as if the only true law among nations has turned out to be Parkinson...
...Gresham's law, Walras' law, Parkinson's law and Mrs. Parkinson's law, students of the human condition can now add Buchwald's law: As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse...