Word: raskin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Transiations--Poems and music with Judith Raskin, soprano; Money Ritt, Plano; and Joanne Hamlin, reader; Agaesiz Theater...
...police decoys took lie detector tests administered by Dr. Richard Raskin of the University of Utah. Raskin--a big man in lie detection who was ready to testify for the defense in the Patty Hearst trial until her defense discovered California doesn't accept lie detector tests as evidence even from Raskin--found that both decoys were telling the truth about the Howe incident...
...Raskin, who had tested the decoys, criticized the test that Howe's lawyer presented, saying that it was unreliable, an old technique that was not as good as the one Raskin himself had used. But many people who watched Howe at the press conference believed that Howe now had worked himself into such a self-righteous fury that he probably thought he really was innocent...
Government officials with a Chicago connection range broadly from one end of the political spectrum to the other. Says Gale McGee: "The only school tie that carries over is in conversation at cocktail parties. There's no real affinity." Adds Marcus Raskin, a Chicago alumnus who directs the Institute for Policy Studies, an ultraliberal think tank: "The people from the university literally don't know each other here. Chicago's position was always as an outsider from among the ruling elite of American schools. The people there are highly individualistic, even eccentric, and they see themselves...
...from Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton decrying the growing number of lay-offs resulting from the "miners' strike"--indicating, apparently, that no one has lost his job due to the coal operators' recalcitrance--the initial response from Washington officials was, as The New York Times editorialist A.H. Raskin put it, "benign neglect." Members of the Executive Branch, including labor economist John T. Dunlop, coordinator of Ford's advisory commission on labor and management, stayed clear of the fracas...