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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
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Examples
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Liberals could almost set their watches when it comes to the Sarah Palin "HEW HAW HOUR".
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Despite friendly words from Richardson and HEW, we had always wondered if, in the end, Nixon would support our approach and the money we were seeking.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He asked for the resignation of every cabinet member and accepted those of five: Joe Califano at HEW, Jim Schlesinger at Energy, Brock Adams at Transportation, Mike Blumenthal at Treasury, and Griffin Bell, the attorney general.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Despite friendly words from Richardson and HEW, we had always wondered if, in the end, Nixon would support our approach and the money we were seeking.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He asked for the resignation of every cabinet member and accepted those of five: Joe Califano at HEW, Jim Schlesinger at Energy, Brock Adams at Transportation, Mike Blumenthal at Treasury, and Griffin Bell, the attorney general.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He asked for the resignation of every cabinet member and accepted those of five: Joe Califano at HEW, Jim Schlesinger at Energy, Brock Adams at Transportation, Mike Blumenthal at Treasury, and Griffin Bell, the attorney general.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Despite friendly words from Richardson and HEW, we had always wondered if, in the end, Nixon would support our approach and the money we were seeking.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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The most important takeout for my Ariel shareowners and readers of this column was insurer AON's (AON, 39) $4.9 billion acquisition of human resources specialist Hewitt (HEW, 50) at a 41% premium to the previous day's close.
Ride The Takeover Wave John W. Rogers Jr. 2010
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Judith Ann Mason, a native of Roanoke, Va., worked as a paralegal in the 1960s and raised her family before joining HEW.
Elizabeth C. Bailey, Robert F. Freeman, Judith Ann Lynch die 2010
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I've mentioned in this space before my favorite line ever uttered by a politician -- specifically, Lyndon Johnson's Republican HEW Secretary and Common Cause founder John Gardner, who once said of America that "the nation today faces breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems."
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