Word: term
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impression one gets from reading the recent work of some of America's better known political writers. Barely a year after Jimmy Carter's dramatic rise from obscurity to the presidency, the pundits are seriously questioning whether he'll be able to hold on to the job for another term; in the past two months several of them have attempted to examine and analyze the possibilities of other candidates, both within the Democratic Party and without...
Lulla, lying back in his bed in the corner, grimaces at the use of the term "new wave...
...general," he moans. He points out the differences in punk that hails from various cities, to emphasize the inadequacies of the general term. While the British punk rockers vomit on their audiences and cry for anarchy, Boston punk rock is at times nothing more than pure late-'50s-early-'60s rock'n'roll. Joe is quick to point out that punk is the song of a culture, and different cultures shape different songs...
...attorneys on the basis of merit, not politics. Once in Washington, however, he found the promise too hard to keep; he owed too many favors. In Philadelphia it was the Rizzocrats who had helped him defeat Gerald Ford. It was the Rizzocrats who Marston had been chasing throughout his term. Carter was forced to play politics. But he compounded the embarassment with lies, and those in turn were compounded by conflicting stories at the Justice Department on the progress of Marston's investigation into dubious financial dealings in connection with the construction of a new wing of the Hahnemann Hospital...
...November 13, 11 days after the signing of Elko's immunity papers, Marston took aside Associate U.S. Attorney General Michael Egan at a Washington conference of United States Attorneys to ask Egan whether he would be kept on to finish out his term. Egan informed him then of the Eilberg-Carter and Carter-Bell conversations. Three days later, on November 16, Marston met with Russell T. Baker, the number two man in the criminal division of Justice, to tell him about the active status of the investigation into Eilberg's dealings with the Hahnemann Hospital, and to suggest that...