Word: posts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Loury, whom Reagan tapped in March for a cabinet post, cited personal reasons when he withdrew his name from the nomination two days before the woman filed a complaint with the Boston police...
After writing a "prodigious amount of highquality material in a short period of time," Lourybecame known as "one of the outstanding economistsof his generation," said Frank Stafford, chairmanof the economics department at the University ofMichigan, where Loury accepted a tenured post in1980...
...Loury accepted a lifetime post atHarvard where he "would gain a lot more visibilitythan at Ann Arbor," Stafford said. He involvedhimself in public policy issues and in 1984 afterMIT tried to lure him away, he made the switchfrom the Economics Department to the K-School...
...some of it mere psychobabble, about his will to self-destruct. But the question of privacy invaded remains. Why was the Miami Herald in such a hurry that it could not even wait to check its facts properly? And what right did Reporter Paul Taylor of the Washington Post have to ask Hart at that televised press conference, "Have you ever committed adultery?" To such a question, said Columnist William Safire, the proper answer is "Go to hell." Ben Bradlee, the Post's executive editor, did not quite condemn his reporter's intrusive question but lamely put it back...
...moment, Talbot considers abandoning his extensively planned future: his post in the service of the British governor of Australia, which will in time bring him back to England, election to Parliament from his godfather's "rotten borough" and prospective glories beyond. And to throw all that away, he reminds himself, for a "parson's penniless daughter!" But the Alcyone is gone the next morning, and Marion with her. Talbot wakes up, hung over yet drunk with infatuation, to face the alarming likelihood that the ship carrying him toward his appointed destination will sink...