Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Herald reporter shot back, "I grew up seeing [former Alabama Coach] Bear Bryant have his players fall down on the ball...
Some, like Notre Dame and Air Force, are former powerhouses who fell from grace. Others, like Alabama-Huntsville, are brand-new programs...
...stay independent we know we'll have a shot," said Julie Woltjen, sports information director at the University of Alabama-Huntsville...
...important Southern Democrat who remained undecided last week was Alabama's Howell Heflin, a member of the Judiciary Committee. During the hearings, Heflin seemed to be leaning toward Bork. But in the wake of Southern poll results and the anti-Bork stands of some of his colleagues, the Senator appeared to be wavering. Emerging from a meeting with the President, Heflin tried to explain his ambivalence regarding the judge. "He could be an evolving individual with a great intellectual curiosity to experience the unusual, the unknown, the strange," said Heflin. "On the other hand, he may be a reactionary weirdo...
SCHOOL PRAYER. Two years ago, when the court overturned an Alabama law that provided for a moment of silent "meditation or voluntary prayer" in the public schools, Powell and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in separate concurrences that a simple moment-of-silence law might be constitutional. This week the court will hear arguments concerning a New Jersey law that merely permits a moment of silent "contemplation and introspection." Two lower courts have already found the law unconstitutional, after concluding that despite its neutral language, the statute has a religious purpose...