Word: bork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee vote fell roughly along party lines, with Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania the only Republican to join eight Democrats in recommending rejection of Bork's nomination. The committee's five other Republicans were. on Bork's side...
Making matters worse for the Administration, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood, an ardent proponent of abortion rights, vowed last week to vote against Bork and even join a filibuster against his confirmation. Congressional headcounters estimate that five additional moderate G.O.P. Senators are likely to oppose the judge. Thus Bork's supporters might have to pick up at least ten Democratic votes to give their man the 51 yeas he will need to win confirmation...
...unattributed word-for-word quotations, and it strains credulity to think that reporters for two influential newspapers just happened to discover them simultaneously at the precise moment when the Senator was about to make his big bid for national attention by presiding over hearings on the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court...
...campaign against Judge Bork is shrill, mean and anti-intellectual," a Wall Street Journal editorial commented typically. Critics of the Journal's editorial page often call it strident, narrow-minded and biased. Yet many of these critics hail the Journal's news pages for their tough coverage of the editorial page's most sacred cows and of corporate misdeeds...
Catching a band of sailors red- handed, the U. S. gives credence to its threats of retaliation against terrorism and consequently heightens tensions with the Khomeini regime. -- Who killed Joseph Biden' s presidential campaign? -- Can Robert Bork win over enough Senators to gain confirmation? -- Across America, the war rages against bicyclists...