Word: byronism
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...would add $3 billion to their coffers this year. If permitted, California could have raked in $417.8 million in mail-order sales taxes last year alone. But this is a tough sell in an election year when jittery lawmakers get plenty of mail from catalog-shopping constituents. As Representative Byron Dorgan of North Dakota put it, "The large catalog companies have the ability -- and they've done it in the past -- to wallpaper the Congress with millions of postcards." Direct mail, after all, is their business...
...death penalty cases they have reviewed since 1976 does not seem to faze the Supreme Court. Instead the court's insistent message is that defendants are represented adequately in the state courts, so federal appeals are unnecessarily redundant. In last week's habeas corpus decision, for instance, Justice Byron White wrote, "It is hardly a good use of scarce judicial resources to duplicate fact finding in federal court merely because a petitioner has negligently failed to take advantage of opportunities in state- court proceedings...
Other cities--including Baltimore and Seattle--have begun efforts similar to the Berkeley Cares Program, according to Byron A. Kemp, a member of the program's board of directors...
...checking is another matter altogether. Byron S. Harvey has seen...
...Claws of the Dragon, Byron and Pack focus on the career of the sinister Kang Sheng, relying mainly on an official Chinese biography that was prepared when Kang was posthumously expelled from the Communist Party in 1980. Pack is an investigative reporter, and Byron is the nom de plume of a "Western diplomat" who is apparently an intelligence officer. He picked up the internal document from a Chinese contact on a dark street in Beijing...