Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several liberal justices have gamely hung on for the past few years to avoid a Reagan sweep. Some Blacks now talk fatalistically of "living through four years of Bush." If Jackson isn't on the ticket, they figure it would be better to teach the Democrats a lesson. But having Bush appoint the next few justices could be disastrous for the next 15 or 20 years, and the symbolic show of disgust hardly seems worth the consequences. It is dangerous when there are too many liberals or conservatives in the Court, and the ball is now in the conservatives' court...
...case into a long-running multimedia sensation. Last week the affair was the centerpiece for an extraordinary episode of TV's Phil Donahue show. The one-hour broadcast was shot on location in Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist Church, where Brawley's mother Glenda, 33, had ensconced herself to avoid arrest on a contempt-of-court charge resulting from her refusal to obey a grand-jury subpoena...
...oppositionists" he so often criticizes. Whether they actually exist or are merely the creations of a canny political illusionist, they are effective in winning him support. They inspire perestroika's enthusiasts to greater effort and at the same time put pressure on nervous provincial leaders who want to avoid falling into the dread category of opposition...
...companion to a House bill passed last December. The $7 billion House measure is more expensive and less stringent, and it provides greater benefits. Differences between the two must now be resolved by a House- Senate conference committee. The White House prefers the sterner Senate version. To avoid a potential presidential veto, a last-minute amendment was added to the Senate bill that requires one adult in two-parent welfare families to devote at least 16 hours a week to "workfare," or unpaid community work projects. The Senate and the Administration have already struck a compromise whereby 22% of those...
Without Brawley's testimony and some additional evidence to support it, it appears that the only person who will be prosecuted in the case is Glenda Brawley, Tawana's mother, who is living in a church to avoid imprisonment on a contempt charge. She refused to respond to a subpoena from a grand jury investigating the case, on the advice of Sharpton, Mason and Maddox...