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...that the student grants do indeed constitute federal aid, triggering federal oversight. But the Justices also found that since Grove City's financial-aid program is the only part of the school affected by federal funds, it alone is subject to Government regulation. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White found no evidence that Congress intended U.S. regulatory authority to "follow federally aided students from classroom to classroom." That, said Justice William Brennan in a lengthy dissent, was just what Congress intended...
...industry might have recovered from the WPPSS debacle, but in recent weeks it has suffered a series of other reversals. In mid-January the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied Illinois' giant Commonwealth Edison a license to operate its new Byron plant, which was nearly completed and had cost $3.7 billion. Reason: the NRC said it had "no confidence" in the quality-control procedures for some of the construction. Three days later, Public Service Co. of Indiana announced that it was canceling all further work on its 2,260-megawatt (MW) Marble Hill plant, half completed at a cost of some...
...after the company announced that it was abandoning the Marble Hill plant. Standard & Poor's has warned Illinois' Commonwealth Edison that its B1 rating of the utility's commercial paper was put on credit watch because of the NRC's denial of an operating license for the Byron units...
...book's protagonist, Arnie Carrington. Arnie, sixtyish, is a former professor of English at an upstate university, a lifelong activist who reigned during the 1960s as a champion of campus protest movements ("Carrington cares!" the students once chanted). He left the university much as his hero Byron left England: under threat of sexual scandal, in his case trumped-up. He moved to the gulf, where his wife soon died of cancer. Now, salvaging his own ruins, he has found a new cause in the devastation left behind by the 1969 hurricane Camille: real estate. Arnie wants...
...reversing that ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court noted that most states already conduct such "proportionality reviews," but added that they are not "indispensable" to the equitable treatment of defendants in capital cases. Justice Byron White, writing for the majority, pointed out that when the Supreme Court outlined its specifications for new death-penalty laws in 1976, it required only that death sentences be imposed using rational, noncapricious standards...