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...various crises of human affairs." However, this quotation, achieved by melding two different . sentences eight pages apart, misrepresents Chief Justice Marshall's view. Marshall was not saying that courts may invent new constitutional values in order to keep pace with the times, but rather that Congress may "avail itself of experience, exercise its reason, and accommodate its legislation to circumstances...
...that was taken to a garbage- compaction area. But the following Monday, Continental's data processors discovered they were short $227 million in checks that the bank had honored but not yet entered in its computers. A crew of janitors then began searching the immediate area, to no avail. Finally, after an anxious hunt, they located the documents in the compaction room amid bundles of wastepaper mingled with noxious cigarette butts and cardboard coffee cups. If the checks had not been found, Continental would have faced the laborious job of straightening out a $227 million imbalance in its books. Last...
...months Deanna had implored her parents to stop using narcotics, but to no avail. After attending a church lecture by an off-duty policeman on the dangers of drug abuse, the junior-high-school student knew what she had to do. Several hours later she searched her house, collecting the incriminating evidence. "The talk she heard the night before," said a lawman, "was the straw that broke the camel's back." Deanna's parents were charged with one count each of coke possession. Their daughter was placed in a shelter for abused and abandoned children...
Robert W. Bennett, dean of Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, who signed the deans' letter, said: "Part of what is disappointing about this whole thing is that our intense protest was to no avail. We made an honest attempt to really address the issue on the merits, but there was really a willingness to ignore the truth for politics...
...door session that followed was described as a "lively exchange." British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told participants, "We believe that SALT II provides the basis for a good agreement, and we would very much regret it if the Americans felt obliged to break it." Shultz argued, to no avail. The room was unanimously, and strenuously, against...