Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impact of the spending cuts is made vastly more difficult because of another major departure: the lumping of three dozen-odd education, social-service and community-aid programs (the exact number will have to be fixed by House-Senate conference) into four "block grants" that states can, within broad limits, distribute any way they see fit. The move primarily is a step toward Reagan's philosophical goal of lessening Washington's clout in American society. But it is supposed to save money too; less will be allotted to the block grants than would have been spent...
...court in a 31-page decision held that the President had the authority to nullify the attachments and return Iran's assets under the broad terms of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The President also had the authority to suspend claims against Iran, the court said. Justice William Rehnquist, who wrote the decision, found support for this in a long history of congressional acquiescence to foreign claims settlements by the Executive...
...perhaps the most confusing decision of the term, the court struck down a San Diego ordinance banning billboards as an unconstitutional infringement of free speech because the law was too broad. In the process, however, seven Justices with differing views on the ordinance agreed that states and cities do have the right to prohibit strictly commercial billboards. A bewildered Justice William Rehnquist described his colleagues' disparate opinions as "a virtual Tower of Babel, from which no definitive principles can be clearly drawn...
...male draft registration and tough strip-mine controls), to the Executive Branch (on passport powers and strict standards for cotton dust and lead in factories) and to states (on televising trials and the double celling of prisoners). Moreover, the Justices tended to resist the temptation to write broad new rules. In short, the court has been just the sort of strict-constructionist, nonactivist body that Ronald Reagan likes...
...security or foreign policy of the U.S." Congress gave the Executive Branch the power to oversee such matters in 1926, but Agee argued that the 1966 regulation was too sweeping. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Warren Burger disagreed, maintaining that Congress had long recognized the Executive's broad passport authority and had passed up obvious opportunities to limit...