Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chairman's prestige, the study recommended making him the principal military adviser to the President and the National Security Council. In addition, the report called for Congress to handle the defense budget on a two-year cycle, instead of annually, in order to force legislators to concentrate on broad issues rather than minor details. While many military observers supported the study, senior Pentagon officials remained unconvinced, expressing reluctance toward changing the system...
...shaky 5-4 majority in that case. Later Blackmun sided against states when they tried to use the 1976 ruling to challenge federal power. Last week the Justice abandoned his earlier vote completely and led a new 5-4 majority in overturning the 1976 decision and restoring Congress's broad authority to regulate many state and local government activities. It was a rare reversal of so recent a precedent...
Associate Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel will also give a consolidated lecture from his popular course. Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice" "I'd like to give them a flavor of the broad range and general sorts of issues that arise in the course," Sandel said...
According to state law, such broad opposition--including vocal criticism from Harvard and MIT. Cambridge's two biggest landowners, respectively--means the proposal requires seven votes to pass the nine-member council, not the usual...
...first viewing, Landis films like Animal House and Trading Places--shaggy, canny, missing broad targets and then dancing on pinheads--seem not nearly as good as they should be. Second time around, they look better than they have any right to. No master of mise-en-scene, no Mr. Meticulous, Landis propels his pictures on attitude. If you buy the mood, you buy the movie. Into the Night is irresistible because Landis' have-fun-with-it mood allows for crazy- acute characterizations that spin the spectator off balance and give him a giggle in the process. The whole oddball cast...