Word: byron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Coop salesperson Pam D. Byron, an avid watcher of student shopping, these first-years are not unusual, as parents often accompany undergraduates on back-to-school sprees...
...schools and government offices. More immediately, there is the exhilaration of the post itself. "It's a very heady feeling for a 24-year-old to be arguing with a Supreme Court Justice about what constitutional law should be," says San Francisco lawyer Dean Gloster, who clerked for Justice Byron White, himself a former clerk. The possibility always exists of placing one's thumbprint on the jurisprudence of the nation...
...school Brit will tell you, is to shout at the blighter in English until he catches on. If he professes not to understand, just turn up the volume till he does. A man who doesn't speak English is a man who isn't worth speaking to. Robert Byron, the great traveler of the '30s who wrote so feelingly on Islamic culture, got great comic effect by treating every alien he met -- even an American -- as an unintelligible buffoon; and his John Bullish contemporary Evelyn Waugh all but enunciated a Blimp's Code by asserting that no man who knew...
...many experts, the CDC program comes none too soon. Last month, when 50 researchers gathered at the world's first CFS symposium in Cambridge, England, Dr. Byron Hyde of Ottawa called the illness "a major health and economic threat, second only to that of AIDS," and berated governments for "turning their backs to this health disaster...
While the Supreme Court unanimously found that Clark should have ordered the local officials to raise taxes rather than doing so himself, the court split bitterly on the question of whether federal judges may intervene in matters of taxation. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White said that to deny judges that right "would fail to take account of the obligations of local governments . . . to fulfill the requirements that the Constitution imposes on them." But Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the dissent, acidly observed, "Today's casual embrace of taxation imposed by the unelected, life-tenured federal judiciary disregards fundamental...