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...Charles and others following his example established communities upriver. These villages that sprang up on the Charles began to regard it not as the common link between the settlements, but as a private resource to be exploited by whichever village could, to the exclusion of the rest. It wau Abraham Shaw of Dedham who first had the bright idea of using the river to power a public grist mill. The town was enthusiastic and work began immediately, in 1636. Unfortunately, dramatic alterations in Shaw's scheme proved necessary, as the Charles was simply too lazy to turn a mill. These...
Jackson strength in New York was based partly on Jewish support for his stance on Israel and the Soviet Union's emigration policies, and partly on support from traditional Democratic politicians such as Mayor Abraham Beame and Queens borough president Donald Manes...
...themselves and their employees out of Social Security if they choose. In the past two years 138 cities, counties and other jurisdictions, including Alaska, have given up their memberships in the Social Security system, and another 207 government units have declared their intention to do so. Last week Mayor Abraham Beame announced that New York City, the biggest local government of all, would join the dropouts, and New Jersey's fiscal affairs office recommended that the state consider a pullout...
...Abraham J. Chayes, professor of Law who backed McGovern in 1972 and now endorses Carter said Carter's victory would give the former governor "a good deal of momentum towards the Massachusetts primary...
...many, change seems inevitable. Columbia Law Professor Abraham Sofaer believes that the increase of plea bargaining, no-fault insurance, smaller juries and non-unanimous verdicts are all signs of an erosion of "classical notions of Anglo-Saxon justice." Chief Justice Warren Burger seeks higher educational and other standards for those admitted to the trial bar in the hope of eliminating frivolous, time-consuming contentiousness. New York Federal Judge Marvin E. Frankel points to a much deeper problem in the procedural games that adversary attorneys play. Because they often use the rules to trample the truth, Frankel has gently proposed thinking...