Word: againsts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A race of dark-eyed, olive-skinned traders who began migrating out of India a millennium ago and still speak their own language (a guttural tongue with Aryan roots called Romany), gypsies have been vilified wherever they have gone. Of the 10 million who now live outside India, roughly half...
The trio of quakes has another distinction. Most major quakes occur around the boundaries of the great moving plates that form the earth's outer layers. One such region lies along California's quake-prone San Andreas fault, where the North American plate and the adjacent Pacific plate...
It began almost a year ago as an attempt to "clear the air" and "restore public confidence." When it ended last week, it was apparent that an unprecedented and excruciating investigation of the California Supreme Court had not succeeded in achieving either goal. The final report by California's...
The commission entrusted with the investigation is composed of five judges appointed by the supreme court, two lawyers named by the governors of the state bar, and two lay people chosen by the Governor. In existence since 1961 to hear complaints and bring charges against wayward judges, it now found...
Despite the distress, Volcker's interest rate policy continues to win support from bankers, businessmen and politicians. The U.S. League of Savings Associations unanimously approved the Fed's actions, and the group's chief economist, Ken Thygerson, admits that it "was necessary to deal a lethal blow...