Word: recommendations
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...that one won't fly, even though top brass wish it were true. "The Army would dearly have loved to avoid this case, which involves one of its most senior officers," says Thompson. "But now that there are six accusers, it would be hard for the investigating officer to recommend anything other than a court-martial." And when McKinney's lawyer threatened to go public with other cases of harassment in a tit-for-tat retaliation, today's outcome became inevitable. All McKinney can hope for now is that Major General Robert Foley ? who will make the final decision...
First, the Board of Ministry did not recommend "gay marriages" in the Memorial Church. Such marriages would have no legal standing under the laws of the Commonwealth. The Board recommended that the Church be made available for Ceremonies of Commitment, and this recommendation has been adapted...
Although your story about the sharp increase in attacks by dogs on people indicated that I believe dogs that bite should be chained [LIVING, June 23], that is not the case. The data indicate that chaining dogs increases the risk of aggression, and thus I do not recommend chaining. A far better approach is to prevent dog bites in the first place through more responsible dog ownership, public education about dog behavior, support for animal control at the community level and reporting of dog bites. JEFFREY J. SACKS, M.D., M.P.H. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Atlanta
...shape of former DNC chairman Donald L. Fowler. Although Fowler knew at the time that the now-infamous Buddhist temple event was "in essence" a fund-raiser, he insists the Vice President did not share that wisdom. Fowler also claimed he couldn't recall asking the CIA to recommend White House access for the rich and very shady donor Roger Tamraz, who wanted to push a Mideast oil pipeline deal. "Memory is fallible," said the former Democratic chief...
Sensitive about unfinished business, Clinton last week began moving his rhetorical chips behind a new commission created by the deal to recommend long-overdue changes in the Medicare system--the Washington equivalent of hitting the snooze bar. The commission, by law, must report its recommendations to Congress in two years, safely after the midterm elections but just around the time both parties start staging for the 2000 campaign. Which is why hardly anyone thinks either party will take the entitlement challenge any more seriously then than it does now. By Friday, White House aides let it be known that...