Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Despite Democrats'objections, he taps the ex-general for Secretary of State...
Haig has all the pluses and minuses of what is called a "political general," a man equally at home in the military and in politics. Brought up on Philadelphia's Main Line and fatherless since ten, Haig...
Reagan seemed remote indeed from the bustle of Washington, where his harried staff was trying to assemble a Cabinet. Reagan's aides announced the most crucial and controversial appointment to date: General Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., 56, as Secretary of State. They also named Raymond James Donovan, 50, a New Jersey construction executive as Reagan's nominee for Secretary of Labor. In addition, they were preparing a crash economic plan that Reagan is considering submitting to Congress within three weeks of his Inauguration; at a minimum, the program will put a freeze on federal hiring and cut spending...
...jump with each passing day. But a number are simply finding that the market is less bullish. Furthermore, 18 minor-league players were drafted by big-league clubs during last week's meetings; a year ago, just ten players were selected. The Oakland A's-reviving under General Manager-Manager Billy Martin and flush with funds since Skinflint Owner Charlie Finley sold the team to Levi Strauss Chairman Walter A. Haas Jr. last summer-have passed up the free-agent market in favor of acquiring minor-league clubs to develop young players. Other clubs are following suit...
...about protecting their sources, while in reality being very practical about not shutting off the flow. Journalists usually look to the validity of the information they are offered, and to its verifiability, more than to the motives of those who furnish it. "Everybody-the President and the president of General Motors-has a motive in giving facts to the press," says A.M. Rosenthal, the New York Times's executive editor. For Rosenthal, sources "may be unknown but cannot be unknowable." Only rarely, in deciding how to play a story, does he ask a reporter or editor for his confidential...