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Word: caseload (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about careers, then eventually about how college might expand their opportunities. "Our kids are extraordinarily modest," says Miller, but by the end of junior year he has guided and goaded most into deciding whether and even where they will apply. "Everyone could do it if they had a small caseload," he says, downplaying his achievement. Next fall some 80% of the graduating class is expected to go to college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Bound, Without a Map | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Until the high-tech methods are perfected, more conventional alternatives remain the most popular. About 30 states have funded "intensive probation supervision," in which participants are typically required to work, keep a curfew, pay victims restitution and, if necessary, receive alcohol or drug counseling. Instead of the usual caseload -- the nationwide average is 150 -- a probation officer in such experiments oversees just 25 people. Even with the added staff expense, the programs still cost less than incarceration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Considering The Alternatives | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...Figures reported as the annual caseload of the honor court, which also treats social misconduct. They therefore may include both social and academic cases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reported Frequency of Academic Dishonesty | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

Boyd did not shy away from tough cases. In one she helped white professors win a discrimination suit against predominantly black Alabama State University, ruffling some feathers in the black community. Boyd is fondest of civil liberties suits, but her heavy caseload also includes criminal, personal injury and domestic relations trial work. She is known as a hardworking, aggressive opponent in court. "She doesn't lose her cool, whether a case is going for or against her," says U.S. Appeals Court Judge Frank Johnson. As a result, Boyd, 33, is now taken very seriously indeed. "Word gets around," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The New Women in Court | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...hard-to-cover rural areas. The West Virginia Legal Services Plan recently closed six of its 14 offices and trimmed its staff of lawyers (average salary: $15,500) from 31 to 17. Evergreen Legal Services in Washington State, which has laid oft" 52 employees, plans to decrease its caseload by at least 40%. The cut backs come at a particularly difficult time, contends LSC's Bradley. Reason: major changes in welfare and other entitlement programs have created a large pool of would-be clients who will want to challenge benefit losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: One More Narrow Escape | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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