Word: burger
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...paper clip. They took the lowly beef patty and made an ideology out of it. How did dining under the heavenly golden arches become a transcendental experience, capturing national enthusiasm with a fervor surpassed only by the space program and World War II? How did just another greasy burger joint become a multinational corporation with sales surpassing the GNP of some nations, a powerful lobbyist with a very friendly Congressman and the nation's largest employer of young people...
Rhetorical Jog. The example of the British barrister system, which allows only a qualified group of lawyers to appear in court, underlies Burger's campaign to require special training and certification of trial lawyers in the U.S. The Chief Justice has also been fighting for prison reform and to increase salaries of federal judges. (Critics claim he has even urged a resigning jurist or two to exaggerate his financial plight.) He has also done his rhetorical best to jog congressional creation of additional federal judgeships...
...help current overworked judges, Burger has mounted his most successful leadership effort. Four different organizations inspired or revivified by the Chief Justice* have helped bring such reforms as the installation of professional administrators in the larger federal courts and the practice of having each judge take a case from start to finish instead of having one judge handle, say, all arraignments or all pretrial hearings. Burger also lets it be known that he personally looks at each judge's newly-required monthly report on the number of cases disposed of. Partly as a result of such changes, there...
...child of sturdy Minnesotans who both lived into their nineties, Burger, 68, is remarkably healthy despite his pace. His secretary reports that he averages 77 hours a week on the job, nearly a fourth of that in nonjudicial duties. He oversees the minutest details of high bench housekeeping, right down to final approval of every flower planted on court grounds. Academic observers continue to fault the quality of Burger's opinions, and though he carries his share of the writing, he once admitted to a Court aide, "I have to take some of the easier ones because...
Edward Devitt, chief judge of the Minnesota federal district court, points out that Burger's activity "provides enormous support to us on the bench. He's constantly working to get us the tools we need to get the job done." Burger explains that he has thrown himself into his wide range of projects because "if I don't do them, they won't get done. It's not that I have special qualifications or skills, but that I'm in a position to do something. For 15 years the activism around here was judicial...