Word: byronism
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...Christopher Byron...
...less than in the mid-1970s, but overall losses could turn out to be worse." Like the hard-pressed companies and countries to which they have made heavy loans, U.S. banks now have to face up to serious past mistakes and pressing current problems. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by Patricia Delaney/Chicago and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
...more: child pornography. Written descriptions of youthful sex remain covered by the normal obscenity standards. The court's new rule on children in pictures or live performances rests not on shielding the public from such material, but on the need to protect the children. Wrote Justice Byron White: "The prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse of children constitutes a government objective of surpassing importance...
...Enmund did not kill or intend to kill," said Justice Byron White for the majority. "We have the abiding conviction that the death penalty ... is an excessive penalty for the robber who, as such, does not take human life." The ruling pleased opponents of capital punishment, though it will probably not affect more than a handful of the 1,038 inmates now on the nation's death rows...
...four dissenters objected that the ruling put the President "above the law." Wrote Justice Byron White: "It is a reversion to the old notion that the King can do no wrong." He chided the majority for abandoning the approach used in other immunity cases: that the shield attaches to functions rather than to offices. Though district attorneys, for example, have absolute immunity while prosecuting a case, they do not have it when directing an investigation. White also argued that an impenetrable shield denies an aggrieved citizen his right to an adequate remedy...