Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Howell Heflin, a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, is the epitome of the Southern Democrat. He sets one at ease with his easy drawl, or stabs at the heart like a Louisiana demagogue drowned in conservatism. To judge by his opening statement, politics will be in the limelight rather than personality. A mild Sectionalist when it comes to pork-barrelling, Heflin leaves his constituency's interests at the door on the Judiciary Committee...
Long considered indispensable indicators of a community's sophistication, orchestras are in danger of becoming cultural dinosaurs. Some are already extinct: within the past decade, major ensembles have collapsed in cities as disparate as Oakland, California; New Orleans; Denver and Birmingham, Alabama. Endowments have been tapped and seasons shortened; crowd-pleasing pops concerts have been added and community-outreach programs established. And yet the slide continues. Gathering last month in New York City for their gloomiest convention in years, the members of the American Symphony Orchestra League heard a stark message: Change...
...given as many votes as there are seats available. For example, if there were five city-council members, each voter would have five votes. That measure, says Guinier, would allow black voters to cast all their ballots for a black candidate, consolidating their power. Dozens of communities, mainly in Alabama, have already used such schemes. A more drastic remedy would be a "minority veto," which would allow judges to give black legislators the power to veto a measure by the majority in situations where proposals by minority legislators have been consistently thwarted...
...When he was over in Vietnam, his wife and family stayed behind at home in Alabama and were treated miserably, as was common at the time," Weinberger says. "He never let it affect what he was doing or how he felt about America...
...billion deficit- reduction plan last Thursday night, Clinton calculated that he had perhaps one or two votes more than the 217 he needed for passage. But halfway into the 15-minute voting period, two Democrats the White House thought it had won over, James Hayes of Alabama and Tim Johnson of South Dakota, voted nay. Instantly, Clinton's margin disappeared. On Capitol Hill a nervous Howard Paster, the top Clinton lobbyist, telephoned White House chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty in the Oval Office. Mack, he said, "what's happening to our strategy...