Word: alabama
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...nation's eyes will also be fixed on the Court when it hears an upcoming case on the constitutionality of an Alabama law allowing schools to set aside a few moments for silence or voluntary prayer. Should the Reagan Administration's noticeable laxness in maintaining the separation of church and state infect the Court, a reversal may be in the cards for the 1962 Engels vs. Vitale decision when the Burger Court banned prayer from the schools. Just last year the Court allowed a Rhode Island town to use taxpayers money to erect a creche over the opposition of civil...
...accusations stem from loans granted to Butcher and the others by banks he controlled. They are charged with ille gally borrowing more than $7 million to finance an Alabama mining company in which Butcher owned a 75% interest. Butcher and his associate are also accused of using forgery and fictitious names to borrow $7.9 million for, among other things, a $400,000 yacht for Butcher. After his court appearance, the onetime Democratic candidate for Governor of Tennessee and organizer of the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair asserted, "I am innocent." If convicted, Butcher faces fines...
...exit polls showed that Reagan did worse among voters ages 18 to 24 than he did with any other age group, splitting them evenly with Carter at 44%. On Tuesday young voters went 60% to 40% for Reagan. What changed their minds? A University of Alabama student leader may have answered at a Reagan rally last month when he declared, "Mr. President, we feel with you in office that when we graduate...
...moved into the 20th century politically," says Washington-based Labor Consultant Victor Kamber. "Now they use direct mail and laser-printed letters. They show videodisks in union halls." Two years ago, aided by computers, the AFL-CIO started to pinpoint unregistered members and sign them up. In Alabama, registration among members in one Sheet Metal Workers' local shot from 40% to more than 90%. Last month, AFL-CIO President Kirkland took to the road in a "solidarity van," going on a two-week, get-out-the-vote odyssey across the industrial Rustbelt...
...time zones. Time zones run from north to south, so parochial regional interests would be blurred. The Eastern time zone clusters New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas; the Midwest time zone clusters industrial Illinois as well as farm states like Kansas and Southern states like Alabama. And so across the nation. Time-zoned primaries would force all national candidates to address themselves once a month to a full cross section of the nation, less fettered by special interests, ethnic or racial groups...