Word: benches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense, the figure held more political than economic portent. After all 10.1% was a far cry from the depths of the Depression; in 1933, 24.9% of the labor force was out of work. But as a political rallying point, 10% is a memorably round number, a bench mark of national economic distress that Democrats hope and Republicans fear might turn voters agains the G.O.P. in the elections...
...usual on the first Monday of October, the Chief Justice, his white leonine mane flowing behind him, took the center chair on the bench and announced the court's opening case (Colorado vs. New Mexico, a water-rights dispute). To the Chief Justice's right was the senior Justice, William Brennan, 76, back from his Nantucket summer home, his lively eyes on full alert behind his spectacles. The court's junior member, Sandra Day O'Connor, fresh from an African safari vacation, looked stern as a schoolmarm as the first hopeful lawyer began to argue...
...that Ron Cuccia (No. 3) could remain at split end, Mark Marion (No. 4) entered upon Buchanan's departure. After an interception, he was back on the bench...
...flame-broils its hamburgers. Playing upon this claim, the company's commercials charged that McDonald's burgers are smaller when they hit the griddle, and that customers overwhelmingly prefer broiled to fried burgers. In one typical commercial, a shocked, beribboned little girl sits on a bench in front of a Burger King outlet and proclaims: "Unbelievable! Luckily I know a perfect way to show McDonald's how I feel. I go to Burger King...
...addition to Cheng's setting. Altman said earlier in the season that "when Margaret is on the court you can notice the saves which just aren't made when she is on the bench...