Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just such forlorn human beings whom Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of presidential pardoners, could not resist. Lincoln believed in a stern divine justice, yet time and again during the Civil War he exasperated his generals by pardoning boys who faced execution for such capital crimes as sleeping on sentry duty or even desertion. But Lincoln's pardons were often just commutations of death sentences, not passports to complete freedom; offenders could still find themselves at hard labor on the dread Dry Tortugas. Ford's pardon of Nixon may stem from similar motives of compassion, but it is hardly the same...
Leonard says the anti-affirmative action reaction hasn't hit Harvard yet, but adds that "it could happen here." He says the time is right for backlash and that Harvard "must call on its internal strength to resist...
...President. This would be a logical starting role for a man who served 15 years as Governor of New York. As Washington Post Columnist George Will put it last week in a somewhat backhanded compliment, Rockefeller's governorship was "a protracted seminar on the ability of problems to resist solutions, and the ability of solutions to aggravate problems ... The knowledge of what doesn't work is invaluable in Government, and Rockefeller...
Like her parents, Susan seems to resist any suggestion that living in the White House will change the Fords' lives. "I'll never throw away my blue jeans," she vows. She is also determined to continue to baby-sit for the family of Congressional Aide Peter Abbruzzese, which lives across the street from the Ford home in Alexandria. In fact, says Susan, she told Mrs. Abbruzzese, who is expecting her third child, "that when she goes to the hospital to have that kid, she should drop her other two at the White House and I'll take...
...encouragement, will undoubtedly be the core of Ford's program, as they were at least in the rhetoric of Nixon's. But while Nixon gave no indication of where he wanted the budget ax to swing, Ford appears to have reached a hard and controversial decision: to resist deep cuts in the Pentagon budget and take the heaviest slices out of civilian programs...