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When Elliot L. Richardson '41 left a top job at New England's largest law firm for a career in public service, he got a 25 percent raise. If he made the same move nowadays, his salary would have been cut in half, he said...
...government official is far better compensated in terms of job satisfaction, said Richardson, who held the positions of attorney general of Massachusetts, attorney general of the United States, and three Cabinet positions in the Nixon Administration...
...American negotiators to make a serious effort to understand Soviet interests before becoming locked in a particular position. "If we are to be successful--reasonably so--it behooves us to make significant efforts to understand their position, so we can judge their consistency," said former U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson...
...National Basketball Association, on the other hand, has avoided such conflicts with a program for testing players who are suspected of being drug abusers. Three positive tests, and the player is expelled from the league. Such was the case with the New Jersey Nets' Micheal Ray Richardson, who was banned last season. N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern has a simple explanation for how the league came up with its testing program: "We said, 'Let's talk about drugs.' I really credit our players. They faced up to the issue very directly...
...federal bench with strong hints from the Administration that he would be first in line for the next available spot on the court. But Bork carries some political baggage: as acting Attorney General ! in 1973, he obeyed Nixon's order to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox; Elliot Richardson had resigned as Attorney General rather than fire Cox. Scalia offered Reagan the chance to place the first Italian American on the high court. He is nine years younger than Bork, an important consideration for a President who wants to leave a lasting mark on the judiciary. The energetic Scalia...