Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DURING an episode of "Family Ties," big brother Alex P. Keaton, the self-proclaimed genius of the family, forced younger sister Jennifer to undergo a neurotic academic experience, convincing her to read volumes of case law and dress as the Statue of Liberty for her seventh grade oral report on "How a Bill Becomes...
...when two prior occupants of the Oval Office ask for an audience it would be impolitic to turn them down. Thus last week former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter got 50 minutes of the President-elect's time to present the gist of a two-volume American Agenda report produced by a bipartisan staff of more than 300 experts and former Government officials. The message: reduce the budget deficit by $40 billion a year for the next four years, abandon the idea of a Star Wars defense that could totally shield the U. S., shore up the faltering savings...
...neither the curricula vitae nor the mountains of advice are likely to do much to advance the causes they represent. The budget deficit, notes Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute (which did not issue a transition report), means that "on a variety of problems the ground which we can till for new ideas is a pretty narrow strip." Whatever solid nuggets there are in the reports are almost impossible to locate in the hustle and bustle of the transition. Experienced mid-to-upper-level job hunters in Washington have long since learned that their prospects improve once...
...Angeles hospital, the head nurse forbade workers to speak anything but English and urged employees to report anyone overheard using another language. The city council in Monterey Park, a suburb of L.A., ousted the trustees of the library for buying foreign-language books and magazines. The manager of an insurance company in Los Angeles ordered Chinese-American staffers to speak only English unless they were dealing with a Chinese- speaking customer...
Bush reappoints Lauro Cavazos as Secretary of Education. TIME assesses the move -- and issues the first of several report cards on Bush as the "education President...