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Webster ['webstə]

韦伯斯特(①姓氏 ②Noah, 1758-1843, 美国词典编辑家)

webster

[ noun ]

English playwright (1580-1625)

<noun.person>

United States politician and orator (1782-1817)

<noun.person>

United States lexicographer (1758-1843)

<noun.person>

Webster \Web"ster\, n. [AS. webbestre. See {Web}, {Weave}, and
{-ster}.]
A weaver; originally, a female weaver. [Obs.] --Brathwait.

The lawsuit alleges that Cambridge Capital forced the 67-year-old Mr. Webster into retirement without promised benefits and asks for $30 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
That 51% majority for sharp restrictions dropped by three points in a post Webster survey of the same respondents a month later, creating a 48-48 split between those who favored the status quo and those who favored restrictions.
John Baker, an attorney for Connick and a law professor at Louisiana State University, said July's Supreme Court decision in a Missouri case, Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services, changed the standard by which courts can review abortion laws.
The magazine cited a memo from William Webster, then FBI director, saying the name Schiavone appeared several times in the agency's reports on the 1975 disappearance of former Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa.
The Missouri case, William L. Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services, was brought to the attention of newly installed Attorney General Dick Thornburgh shortly after he started work last summer, the Justice Department official said.
Webster, 25 when she disappeared, had just returned to Boston from a Thanksgiving visit with family members in New Jersey.
Attorney General William Webster's office said it would file a response to the Cruzans' appeal but did not think the Supreme Court would find a constitutional issue in the case.
Bush also planned to meet with William Webster, director of the CIA, a job Bush once held.
He reportedly was on the first list of candidates former FBI Director William Webster gave Mr. Meese.
Helene L. Kaplan, an attorney with Webster & Sheffield, was named a director of this insurer, increasing board membership to 20.
Although he hasn't formally declared, there's little doubt that the fresh-faced and controversial Mr. Webster is running.
Colleagues said they had no doubt that David Webster, 44, was assassinated because of his political activities.
Turning to foreign policy, Bush also said CIA Director William Webster would remain in his post, the latest in a string of holdover appointments from the Reagan administration.
"Actually, Noriega was not a factor from the time the first paratrooper landed in Panama," Webster said Tuesday night during a question-and-answer session with students at American University.
At any rate, the broadcast said, Secretary of State George P. Shultz and FBI Director William Webster scuttled the proposal.
And Mr. Webster said he would have resigned rather than follow orders to withhold congressional notification about the arms sales for nearly a year, as former CIA Director William Casey did.
Frank L. Bradley Jr., chairman of the Stone & Webster Management Consultants Inc. unit of the international engineering company, was elected to the additional posts of president and chief executive officer of the unit.
Webster was one of those ousted in the pay-raise revolt.
The judge was shocked," said Mrs. Craig. "He couldn't understand why the verdict went that way." What do Dr. Seuss, Stephen King and the editors of Webster's dictionary have in common?
The transition team has not indicated whether Bush intends to replace CIA Director William Webster, a former FBI chief appointed to head the agency after William Casey died in May 1987.
Attackers firing from a passing car today shot and killed anti-apartheid activist David Webster outside his home, friends said.
The exact date of Mr. Webster's departure from the post isn't known.
Webster, 64, pledged at his confirmation hearings last year to keep members of congressional oversight committees fully informed of CIA activities.
Attorney General William Webster promptly turned to the Supreme Court.
Webster refused to say whether the facility was operational, but other officials have said Libya is on the verge of production.
There is some thinking that Bush may keep CIA Director William Webster on the job in an interim appointment.
Today he lives in a 250-year-old house in Greenwich that is paneled with wood from Daniel Webster's home; monogrammed cocktail napkins carrying the words "Applejack Farm," the 17th-century name of the property, sit on the coffee table.
"We believe there has been a substantial amount of abuse in that area," says William L. Webster, Missouri's attorney general.
Last week, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Webster publicly called on Congress to provide new interpretations of the assassination order that would permit the U.S. more freedom to act in coups.
Mr. Gates wants the top intelligence job, officials say. He was nominated for the post before Mr. Webster, but withdrew his name because of criticism that he failed to halt secret arms sales to Iran during the Reagan years.

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