Word: across-the-board
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...Michigan State demonstrate in their book The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model, Rehnquist supported states' economic regulations 89% of the time when the regulations were pro-business and 88% of the time when they were anti-business. "No other Justice comes close to this sort of across-the-board deference" to the states, Segal said in an e-mail. "Most justices are ideological: they vote to strike either liberal laws or conservative laws, but not both." But when Segal and Spaeth looked at cases decided between 1986 and 1998, they found that "only Rehnquist and [the late Justice Byron...
...program ever undertaken." Nonetheless, the Gorbachev proposal's simplicity and emotional appeal had distinct propaganda advantages, particularly in Western Europe. The Soviet offer also came at a time when the Kremlin has given intriguing, if nebulous, hints that it might be willing to propose a variety of new across-the-board reductions in the strategic-missile stockpiles of the superpowers...
...initiatives to make more of those goods available will reduce his country's burgeoning surplus with the U.S. But if the program fails to show quick results, Japan may face retaliation. Congress has before it a stack of protectionist bills, including a measure to add a 20% across-the-board tariff to imports. --By Janice Castro. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...National Union of Mineworkers, announced that his union would walk out of 18 gold mines and eleven coal mines unless the Chamber of Mines increases the pay hike that went into effect on July 1. That increase ranged between 14% and 19.6%, but the union wants an across-the-board raise of 22%. The union claims it can get 240,000 workers to walk out. The Chamber of Mines, the trade association that handles wage negotiations, says the real number is closer to 65,000. Either way, the walkout could create still another arena of conflict between blacks and whites...
...guys who filled in stepped up,” Murphy said. “It’s been just a great across-the-board team effort...