Word: posts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study, which this May surveyed 1527 members of the Class of 87 about their post-graduate plans and undergraduate experience, found that one-fifth of the seniors are planning no further graduate studies. At the same time, more than half of the senior class had done public service work during college and more than half had travelled abroad or planned to do so immediately after graduation...
Editor's Note: At 11:45 p.m. on the night of January 19, 1989, the Reagan Administration nominated Judge Reinhold to fill the Supreme Court post vacated by Lewis F. Powell. So far, 14 nominees have failed to win the approval of the cantankerous Senate Judiciary Committee...
Like the rest of America, politicians in Washington seemed less likely to change their behavior patterns as memories of Black Monday drifted away. When congressional and Administration leaders opened their second week of emergency budget-cutting meetings last week, their post-crash burst of bipartisan magnanimity was on the wane. "The worst thing for the summit is stock-market stability. It takes the pressure off," says Economist Schultze...
...stops just to get Powell to join the NSC as his deputy. In late 1986 Powell had taken command of the Army V Corps in Frankfurt, West Germany, after some five years in the Pentagon as an aide to Carlucci and then Weinberger. He was reluctant to quit his post after only six months. But Carlucci was determined to get his friend back to Washington. When President Reagan, at Carlucci's urging, personally phoned Powell to offer him the NSC job, the general had little choice but to obey his Commander in Chief...
...credit for restoring order and collective confidence to an organization that was fractured and demoralized during the Iran-contra scandal. As Weinberger's de facto chief of staff from 1983 to 1986, Powell knew early on of the Administration's secret arms sales to Iran. Weinberger told the Washington Post last spring that Powell "was the person I used to carry out the President's directions to make the arrangements for transferring the arms to the CIA." Added Weinberger: "And it ended there." Indeed, Powell was never deeply immersed in the controversy, and emerged with his reputation intact...