Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legal analysts like Archibald Cox, Loeb Professor of Law, have frequently pointed out of late, congressional infringement on the powers of the courts sets a dangerous--and quite possibly unconstitutional-precedent. We urge Congress to avoid it--and to reject Helms's please to hamstring the third branch of government...
...somewhat on the gains made by its predecessor, the activist and rights-conscious tribunal of Earl Warren. Right-wingers have assailed the Court for not scrapping even more of that Court's "Liberal solutions. "But doubts about specific Court decisions are no excuse for limiting its authority as the branch most committed to defending civil rights. If the Reagan Administration continues its attempts to roll back the social legislation of the sixties, we may need a truly activist Court--one committed to defending civil rights and equipped to do so--more than ever...
...Kennedy Library, a branch of the national archives, has reported problems recently in dropping attendance Fenn was uncertain that the attention resulting from the release of the tapes would boost visitation, but said it would probably increase the amount of research done there...
...accused, a tall, impeccably tailored man with ramrod-straight posture and austere mien, is a member of the Danish branch of an old and distinguished German family. Among his ancestors: Conductor Hans von Bülow, husband of Franz Liszt's daughter. Sent to England during World War II, Von Bülow studied law at Cambridge. His reputation as a bright barrister attracted Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, who made him a chief aide. Getty called him "an extra right arm" and said he had "a rapier-quick mind and a penchant for hard work...
...leaders intent upon making their mark by streamlining government. (The chances of that are slim.) The voters at large have almost no control over the advisers and administrators drawing federal salaries, let alone the single-minded lobby groups that build up private fiefdoms within the Congress and the executive branch. Bitter about his own inability to effect major changes during his brief tenure in Washington, the author doesn't push his analysis much past interpreting the motives of his former colleagues. In fact, now that he has abandoned public service, Fromson seems to have gotten serious about writing qua writing...