Word: blanks
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Stung by criticism that he doesn’t care about black people, President Bush resolved to spend like drunken sailor, promising New Orleans “one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen” along with a blank check. The government will spend “whatever it takes” to rebuild New Orleans and Gulf Coast reconstruction will “cost whatever it costs...
What kind of Supreme Court justice would Harriet Miers be? For anyone trying to assess her qualifications, analyze her philosophy and predict her behavior, Miers would seem to present a fairly blank slate. She has no judicial resume and hasn't left a long trail of noteworthy memos, briefs, oral argument transcripts or law journal articles...
Though justices are not blank slates and certainly have biases, what Roberts has given us is a commitment to think. His refusal to answer questions on future cases is his admirable refusal to pre-judge a case before hearing out its merits. This is an unexpected revelation from a man who worked in the Reagan administration, appointed by an intensely ideological president...
...want to know how a justice will decide,” he said. “[Former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist] was the most utterly predictable judge....Justices come to the bench with agendas. They are not blank slates...
Despite fear that the city’s poor will not have the support or resources to reclaim their lives, some at Harvard see the hurricane’s destruction as an opportunity to start with a blank slate...