Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Patrick's Day began badly for Boston Globe Editor Michael Janeway. Over breakfast that Monday, Jack Driscoll, his deputy, confided that he was leaving the paper. After 15 months in the paper's top post, Janeway, 45, still depended heavily on the 28-year Globe veteran, who was immensely popular among staffers. Then came bleaker tidings. When Janeway reported Driscoll's wishes to Publisher William Taylor, he was utterly unprepared for his boss's reaction. The paper could not afford to lose Driscoll, Taylor replied. Would Janeway consider becoming Driscoll's No. 2 man? The proposal astounded Janeway...
After all, it is St. Patrick...
...applicants. Since the program started, absenteeism is down 25%, and medical claims, which had been rising steadily at an average rate of 23% annually, rose only 6% last year. Moreover, the company had fewer on-the-job accidents in 1985 than in any previous year. Says Vice President J. Patrick Sanders: "I don't think that all of the improvements are directly related to the drug program. But it's got to be more than coincidental...
...Patrick J. Buchanan, White House director of communications and resident ideologue, is chief architect of the President's strategy of pugnacious confrontation with Congress on aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. Reagan's decision to make a slam-bam push for contra aid was widely regarded in the capital as a personal victory for the tenacious Buchanan, who lately has been on something of a roll. If the contra aid strategy succeeds, Buchanan's ascendancy may signal as well a fundamental shift in the way the White House does business --from political pragmatism and compromise to ideological purity and contentiousness...
...button and bring in a distant image got ABC into trouble with the White House on Wednesday night following President Reagan's nationally televised speech on defense spending. Taking advantage of its hookup with Moscow, the network gave Posner an opportunity to comment for seven minutes. This infuriated Patrick J. Buchanan, Reagan's director of communications, who criticized ABC in a letter for giving air time to a "trained propagandist." Richard Wald, ABC News senior vice president, agreed in a statement that the network had erred by "letting (Posner) push on at too great a length without an opposing voice...