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This Tuesday the bearish federal judge and former law professor, who is as amiable in person as he is controversial in his concepts, will begin three days of intensive grilling by the 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bork and his supporters will argue that he is a fair, open-minded, brilliant jurist whose philosophy of judicial restraint represents a reasonable antidote to 30 years of excessive social activism by the court. His foes, led by Chairman Joseph Biden, will seek to show that he is a right-wing radical whose opinions and writings reveal a reading...
Bonner is among millions of individual Americans who are making a private killing in the wild bull market of the 1980s, which will turn five years old on Aug. 13. They have come back with growing confidence to the stock market they fled during the bearish 1970s. "The longer the bull market goes on, the more believers there are," says Charles Neuhaus, a broker for Houston's Underwood, Neuhaus. During the first half of this decade, the number of Americans who own shares in individual companies or stock-market mutual funds increased from 30.2 million to more than 47 million...
...every time they attempt to bring the Administration back to earth their political opponents brand them doves. The again, they might grow tired of the Administration's claim that only a sky's-the-limit missiles buildup budget can effectively communicate our seriousness to the Soviets and become bearish on defense. Either way, the country is not likely to get the affordable national security we need, which is just what happens when reason tails to govern...
...giggly naivete, he is restricted by Clark's homogenous direction and lack of originality. In addition to boring us with 45 endless minutes of Jimmy plastering his insignia on everything in sight. Clark refuses to let his character develop anything but superficial personalities. Admittedly appealing in a teddy-bearish sort of way. Hutton's Lynch is essentially nothing more than an anti-social wise guy whose highly limited intelligence seriously puts into question his ability to evade detection from the police for as long as he does...
...skit at the Douglas Elementary School in Columbus, a character named Uncle Harry, played by an adult leader, grosses out the second grade by putting some Big-Bearish moves on his seven-year-old niece Sally, with whom he is baby-sitting in front of the TV on Saturday morning...