Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against the backdrop of Ireland's longstanding neutrality in the East-West military confrontation, Gorbachev said it was time "to set our common European house in order," accept the realities of being divided into separate economic and military blocs and "play a key role in putting international relations on a new level...
Some legal scholars worried about the court's direction in future cases. "Will it be limited to safety-sensitive positions or broadened to include any public employee who is a role model?" asked University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar. Other experts doubted that the court would uphold random drug tests for a broad spectrum of Government employees. "The pattern of votes on the court suggests that as you get closer to mainstream workers, the number of dissenters picks up," observed Columbia University Law Professor Gerard Lynch...
Left to his own devices and instincts, Shamir would come to the U.S. with his jaw out, his dukes up and nothing in his pocket. The idea of a "Shamir initiative" sounds like a contradiction in terms. His preferred role is still that of defiant custodian of the status...
...Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to investigate Gingrich's book arrangement. After Gingrich's election last week, Wright sent the new whip a copy of Reflections of a Public Man with a pungent inscription: "For Newt, who likes books too." When asked how Gingrich, in his new leadership role, would deal with Wright, Gingrich replied, "Politely...
While the main responsibility for minimizing contamination rests with the food industry, the Government has long played a crucial watchdog role. & Checking U.S. produce, meat, poultry and fish is an operation of mind-boggling -- critics say irrational -- complexity. Responsibility is parceled out among several agencies, and jurisdictions can overlap. The FDA checks fruits and vegetables as well as fish, the latter a task it shares with the Commerce Department. The Department of Agriculture handles meat and poultry at slaughterhouses and processing plants...