Word: 27th
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Tribe suggested that the Supreme Court may be incapable of keeping up with the pace of technological change. He proposed what many will consider a radical solution: a 27th Amendment that would make the information-related freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights fully applicable "no matter what the technological method or medium" by which that information is generated, stored or transmitted. While such a proposal is unlikely to pass into law, the fact that one of the country's leading constitutional scholars put it forward may persuade the judiciary to focus on the issues it raises. In recent months...
HOUSE Majority Leader Charles F. Flaherty is the obvious choice in the race for representative of the 27th Middlesex District. Flaherty, practically assured to become House speaker if re-elected, carries almost 23 years of state government experience with him--an important qualification Republican opponent and political novice A. George Catalovo cannot come close to matching...
That is a partial tally of deliberate affronts to the audience in 15 acclaimed stage shows from East and West Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Bremen, Bochum and Schwerin. All were imported for, or staged locally to enrich, last month's Berlin Theatertreffen, the city's 27th annual festival of productions from around the German-speaking world. Although the doctrinaire Marxism of Bertolt Brecht, Germany's greatest 20th century playwright, has fallen out of fashion, his zeal to shake up bourgeois spectators still seems to inspire his artistic successors...
...hint of the army's coming demotion should have been visible in February 1986, when the 27th Communist Party Congress adopted the doctrine of "sufficient defense," a clear departure from the long-held Soviet view that the best defense was an overwhelming offense. The military budget, which had regularly been increased as national income grew, was frozen in 1987. Gorbachev's intentions became clearer in December 1988, when he told the United Nations he would unilaterally cut his military by 500,000 men and his $ arsenal of tanks...
Fayette County is what a West Virginian might call "fair to middlin.'" With an unemployment rate of 10 percent, it ranks 27th out of 55 West Virginia counties, and 24th in earnings per job. Fayette County is neither affluent nor dirt poor. If you peer into the "hollers," you can find wretched poverty. But most of the area is dotted by modest, clean houses and neat yards...