Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court was resoundingly rejected last year in large part because the Senate feared Bork would push the Justices into overturning landmark decisions on civil rights. All the more reason for the uproar last April, when Justice Anthony Kennedy, who filled the vacant seat, joined a 5-to-4 court majority inviting reargument of a 1976 decision that allowed citizens to sue private institutions for damages resulting from racial discrimination...
...external fuel tank. This week plans call for the entire structure to be moved, at a glacial pace, more than four miles to launching pad 39B and poised for launch in late August or September. "The test results look good. The hardware looks great," said Deputy Operations Director Robert Crippen. "We're in the countdown to launch...
...jobs, most have already had a chance to serve. For Democrats, who have held the White House only four of the past 20 years, the yearning is unmistakable. "Like others, I am getting a continuous supply of letters, telegrams, calls, reports and recommendations," says Harvard Professor Robert Reich, who is often cited as a key economic adviser to Dukakis. He adds with a roguish twinkle, "I hear from a remarkably large and varied number of people...
...temporary post at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Not as hard as it sounds, since the school offers a wide array of fellowships for mid-career bureaucrats and displaced politicians. The nameplates along the corridors (Joseph Nye, Al Carnesale, Robert Murray, Robert Reich, Graham Allison) read like a government-in-exile, and old articles are being recycled daily into speech drafts...
...experts worry about just the opposite possibility: that the Social Security program will push the overall budget substantially into surplus. If Government revenues far exceed spending, less money will be available for businesses and consumers. That could produce a drag on the economy or even a recession. Already, says Robert DiClemente, a senior economist at Salomon Brothers, "many people are now paying higher ((Social Security and Medicare)) payroll taxes than income taxes." The thing to do, argues Robert Myers, chief actuary of the Social Security Administration from 1947 to 1970, is to cut the payroll tax so that the trust...