Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wednesday morning brought one of the more solemn transition rituals: the passing on of intelligence secrets to the President-elect. CIA Director Stansfield Turner arrived at the Jackson Place town house, briefed Reagan for 90 minutes, and left stonefaced and silent; he knows that he will be replaced, probably by William J. Casey, Reagan's transition chairman, who sat in on the meeting. But the ritual had one touch of humor. Hurrying to the briefing, Bush bounded up the steps of 712 Jackson Place and began shaking hands with puzzled secretaries from the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation before...
...waning moments of gray November day. The ball rests on the Yale one-yard line, and Harvard quarterback Milt Holt of Honolulu, Hawaii, hunches over his center, calling the signals. The scoreboard clock shows 15 seconds remaining, and the 40,000 fans jamming Soldiers Field to capacity fall silent. Holt is about to run the option play--a sprint to the left side of the field which will offer him two alternatives. The first is to find an open receiver and try to throw him a touchdown pass. The second is to fake the pass and attempt to run into...
Regan scored heavily with his repeated question of whether voters felt they were better of than they had been four years earlier. Said Republican Governor James Thompson of Illinois: "A lot of people, the so-called silent majority, went into the voting booths and said. 'To hell with it, I'm not going to reward four years of faliure.'" One telling incident: in the mill town of Homestead, Pa., half a dozen steelworkers cheered Ron Weisen, president of Local 1397, as he told a reporter that he was voting for Regan. Said Weisen: "Carter ignored...
...line between gaining benefits for their unions and acting as adversaries to a staunch administration, union leaders at Harvard hold a thankless job. From all corners of the University, no matter what the specific union, isolated voices cry out for stronger action--strikes, grievances, unfair labor practice suits. The silent majority of Harvard's workers desires money in the pocket, job security and quiet. University officials no doubt relish this complacency and have an interest in fragmented unions. In the Medical Area, where District 65 of the United Auto Workers is attempting to organize clerical and technical personnel, the University...
...policy allows students to remain silent when "legal proceedings have been instituted or are anticipated against a student," and his "alleged misconduct is more serious than a disorderly person offense...