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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congressional leaders in the same room. Said he of his energy package: "The people want it. If we can't have an effective energy bill, I don't deserve to be re-elected and the Congress doesn't deserve to be re-elected." That was a bit much for Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who has not indicated whether he will support Carter for a second term. Congress, protested Byrd, should not be judged on a single issue. "This is no time to suggest any such thing," he said. "We've already done...
...with a heavily Irish-American clientele. He bought guns with money embezzled by a barman - as much as $3,000 a week, he claimed. Mostly, McMullen said, he just strolled into gun shops, cash in hand, and bought whatever weapons he wanted, but on occasion the approaches got a bit dicey. Said he: "One night I'm standing at the door of this busy nightclub, and up comes a guy with this great bloody carpet over his shoulder. He says he's got something to show me. So I tell him to get the hell...
Given these factors, there may have to be quite a bit of pulling and hauling to get that bull market on its feet and charging hard. But optimists point to some fundamental trends that will be bracing for the market and may help stall the gold machine...
...through a computer. That helped the book but not the editors: they find themselves dating checks 1980. A movie based on The '80s is in the works, they report, and Cerf and Hendra have lined up financing for a new satirical magazine. Even so, life has become a bit anticlimactic. Says Hendra: "There seems to be nothing to talk about in 1979 since we've already lived through the next ten years...
...Blackmun, who dissented in the case, told a group of federal judges that "despite what my colleague, the Chief Justice, has said," the opinion allows the closing of full trials as well. Justice Lewis Powell told a panel at the American Bar Association convention that it "would be a bit premature" to read broader meanings into the opinion. Powell explained that the Gannett decision was based solely on the Sixth Amendment. Though the Sixth guarantees the right to a public trial, it also guarantees a fair trial. If the defendant insists that an open pretrial hearing might prejudice his case...