Word: brennans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine on today's Supreme Court, only Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan believe that the death penalty itself is unconstitutional...
...percentage of consumer after-tax earnings that goes for paying off installment debt has declined from 19% in 1979-80, to 15% now, about where it was in the recession year of 1975. Says Edward Brennan, Sears merchandise-group chairman: "People who are working are in an excellent position to extend themselves on charge accounts...
...minute, the Supreme Court sanctioned the judicial shortcut by voting 6-3 not to stay the execution Conservative Justice William H. Rhenquist had long sought a way to speed up the pace of state executions; he now found help from the newest justice, Sandra Day O'Connor. Justices Marshall, Brennan and Stevens protested the decision: "The court of appeals...still has not acted on the merits of the [Brooks] appeal...
...Ariyoshi (D) Spark M. Marsunaga (D) IDAHO * No Race ILL. Adlai E. Stevenson III (D) No Race IND. No Race Richard G. Lugar (R) IOWA Terry Branstad (R) No Race KAN. John Carlin (D) No Race KY. No Race No Race LA. No Race No Race ME. Joseph E. Brennan (D) George J. Mitchell (D) MD. Harry R. Hughes (D) Paul S. Sarbanes (D) MASS. Michael S. Dukakis (D) Edward M. Kennedy (D) MICH. James J. Blanchard (D) Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D) MINN. Rudy Perpich (D) David Durenberger (R) MISS. No Race John C. Stennis (D) MO. No Race...
Maine's race pits incumbent Democrat George Mitchell, who was chosen by Gov. Joseph E. Brennan to replace newly appointed Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie in 1980, against challenger David Emery, a Republican congressman from the first district in eastern Maine. Emery, a young outspoken conservative, "makes no bones about his support for Reagan," says campaign spokesman Bob Tyrer...