Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter term was marred by a running feud between the patrician, conciliatory Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and the scrappy, viscerally anti- Soviet National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski...
Philip Corboy doesn't need to chase ambulances. They seem to chase him. Just one day after the July 19 crash of United Airlines Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa, the white-thatched, patrician-looking Chicago attorney was asked for legal help by the family of one of the survivors. Within 24 hours, Corboy had filed the first lawsuit to come out of the disaster. Since then, he has received calls from twelve other people involved in the crash. His fee, if he wins: as much as one-third of the damages...
Curtis Bok, the president's father, was a Philadelphia judge known for his intellectual, patrician demeanor and an ability to remain above the city's machine politics. Some say his demanding court-room manner is reflected in his son's strict standards for evaluating arguments...
...moves are part of a new national strategy to spotlight those who are leading and funding efforts to ban abortions, Patrician Ireland, exective vice president of the national organization, said in a telephone interview from Washington...
...crumble and it was discovered that Secretary of State James Baker owned an estimated $2.9 million worth of Chemical Bank stock while he was Treasury Secretary with policymaking influence over the treatment of the bank's shaky Third World loans. These days the President sounds less like a patrician reformer as he muses aloud, "I hope I haven't created something that just carries things...