Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nightly "All Things Considered." These shows are an unorthodox mix of straight "hard news," features, interviews and commentary often humorous. They, along with extensive arts programming and other news shows, developed a devoted following, listenership swelled to 9 million and the mention of National Public Radio drew fewer blank states...
...Christian Democrats suffered an unprecedented loss of more than 5%, dropping from 38% to 33% of the popular vote. What shook the political establishment even more was a wave of protest votes, estimated at 18% to 20% of the electorate, squandered on splinter parties or simply thrown away in blank or spoiled ballots. Such gestures of contempt for the major parties were taken as a public warning against politics-as-usual while the nation's worsening economic ills went unattended...
...foreign arms sales to rules about morticians' sales pitches. Explains Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, a critic of the legislative veto: "Instead of going through the cumbersome and politically painful process of standing up and being counted, Congress says, 'Why don't we just give a blank check to the Executive agencies, and if we don't like the results...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court bounced that congressional blank check. In a sweeping decision, the court declared the legislative veto to be an unconstitutional usurpation of power by Congress. Apparently any exercise of the legislative veto amounts to a new piece of legislation, said Chief Justice Warren Burger in a lucid, 39-page majority opinion; Article I of the Constitution dictates that "every Order, Resolution or Vote"-any legislative act-by Congress is subject to the President's approval. "It is obviously easier for action to be taken by one House without submission to the President," Burger wrote...
Gilbert Grosvenor, president, National Geographic Society, at George Washington University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: "I think of J.R.R. Tolkien. The year is 1926. He sits in his study at Oxford correcting a student's thesis. The student had, for some reason, left a page blank. When Tolkien came to it, he picked up his pen and wrote on the blank page: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' Thus launched one of the great literary careers of our century. He was asked why he had done that, and he replied...