Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...former test, developed in the 1976 decision Elrod vs. Burns, permitted dismissal of employees who held policy-making or confidential positions. The court ruled last week, however, that under the First Amendment's protection of the freedoms of belief and association, a public employee cannot be fired for partisan reasons unless "party affiliation is an appropriate requirement for the effective performance of the public office involved." The two plaintiffs could stay...
Immediate reaction to the program Tom politicians, businessmen and economists was cautiously reserved. Only the most partisan conservatives denounced it wholeheartedly, and even fewer people gave it warm praise. Generally, Carter got high marks for having realized the deadly seriousness of inflation and having started...
Psychologically, this has to help the Crimson. Starts and turns at Blodgett are now second-nature for a team that has practiced and competed there all year. And the effect of performing before a highly partisan home crowd, while lessened by the absence of the student body, should stimulate fast swimming...
...Oshawa, Ontario, native played a near-impeccable 60 minutes, never losing his poise despite taunts from the highly partisan Big Green crowd, and singlehandedly reversing the game's momentum several times...
Marglin argues that while most professors here view him as a partisan, they deny that they themselves possess an ideology. "Many Harvard professors think of ideology as something the other fellow has," Marglin comments, adding that the prevailing attitude at Harvard is that the study of the social sciences can be objective, and this results in a limited spectrum of political ideologies here. He points to the preponderance of he main outlook in the Economics Department: a right-wing, conservative, free-market one. "If you compare my department's political-cultural spectrum to the world's, it by no means...