Word: byronic
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...years. With that growth comes every social pathology; when Rifle doubles in size, juvenile delinquency increases three times; the alcoholism rate increases four times; displaced homemakers increase 4.5 times. The immediate costs are immense, the long-term benefit doubtful." It is no wonder that some little communities, as Mayor Byron Farwell of Hillsboro, Va. (pop. 135) points out in the journal Small Town, "struggle to stay small...
...abortion and affirmative action, so is the country. And while it is difficult to predict what the court will do in general "liberal" or "conservative" terms, the voting records of the individual Justices are quite consistent. For instance, Justice Stewart usually votes liberal on criminal rights, conservative on race; Byron White votes just the other way. The only truly fickle Justice is the Chief Justice. He likes to be in the majority...
...throned on her hundred isles! -Lord Byron...
FOREIGN MATTER by Christopher Byron Doubleday; 253 pages...
...their ... houses." The Constitution, he wrote, has "drawn a firm line at the entrance to the house." Police have long been required to have warrants to make most nonconsensual searches; this, said the majority, should also apply to arrests. The fact that the court as a whole rejected Justice Byron White's dissenting opinion that the decision would only help felons avoid capture may signal a significant change: in the early and mid-1970s the Justices usually took a hard line in Fourth Amendment decisions, chipping away at the liberal precedents established by the Warren Court...