Word: prior
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...executive committee of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), which has been reviewing the case of four doctors who wrote letters of recommendation for a colleague without mentioning his prior rape conviction, will make a major statement on the issue this morning, sources at the hospital and Harvard Medical School said yesterday...
Representatives of the New York hospital originally said Dr. Martin J. Downey, chief of anesthesiology in Buffalo, had contacted the letter writers prior to hiring Hussain...
...most controversial ouster, however, was the firing of Employment Secretary James Prior, the nemesis of the Tory right wing, who had urged Thatcher to ease up on the trade unions. An extremely popular M.P. who acted as a lightning rod for disaffected Tory backbenchers, Prior had even won praise from Labor Party Leader Michael Foot as "a good man fell among monetarists." When Thatcher summoned her ministers to No. 10 Downing Street, she told Prior that he could have the thankless job of Northern Ireland Secretary-or nothing. After some hesitation he accepted the post. The choice of Norman Tebbit...
None of the recommendations mentioned Hussian's prior rape conviction, he added...
...omnibus "Family Protection Act" that is something of a New Right wish list. Among many other provisions, it would exclude "discipline or corporal punishment methods applied by a parent" from the restrictions of child-abuse laws, deny federal funds to schools that do not allow "parental review of textbooks prior to their use in public school classrooms," prevent any school from using federal money to buy educational materials that present an overly progressive view of "the status role of men and women" and permit any schools receiving federal cash to "limit or prohibit the intermingling of the sexes...