Word: byronism
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...result, the National Conservative Political Action Committee spent almost $10 million in 1984 on pro-Reagan activities, and other ostensibly independent groups spent nearly $5 1/2 million more. Walter Mondale, by contrast, had less than $1 million spent on his behalf by independent PACs. In his dissent, Justice Byron White argued that the independence of the ideological PACs is mainly a charade, a view shared by Democratic leaders and others...
While race may not be an issue in terms of the candidates themselves, Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston) said yesterday that the future of the district's racial make-up is tied closely to redevelopment and today's winner's position on the issue...
...Switzerland. By then it was just a peaceful backwater. Franz Liszt came here after eloping with the Countess d'Agoult, and he composed a piano piece inspired by the city's church bells. "Happy is he who can stay long by these shores," wrote another aristocratic visitor, Lord Byron...
...frequently sided with the liberals on other questions. Some observers see the San Antonio reversal as the latest assertion of independence by a Justice once considered to be a solid member of the conservative bloc. Last week's majority was made up of Centrists Blackmun, John Paul Stevens and Byron White plus Liberals William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall. "You can almost see them getting together and saying, 'Let's win one against the Gipper,' " says one leading court expert...
...right to force the layoff of white fire fighters in Memphis in order to protect black hiring and promotion gains under a court-ordered affirmative action plan. The language of the court's opinion appeared to go well beyond the facts of the case. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White declared that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was intended only to protect individual victims of proven discrimination. Since under most affirmative action plans whole classes of minorities get preference, the court's ruling seemed to argue against broad remedies...