Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realize the Nazis thought of Jews as being somewhat less than human, but the atrocities committed in the Holocaust cannot be easily rationalized away. They show the depravity possible in a particular political system and should 'be a constant reminder to us that under certain circumstances, we are all capable of the most heinous of crimes...
Dealing with constituents who are also neighbors and acquaintances can be sticky. Charlotte Baldwin, her town's first woman mayor, dresses with a certain flair in Lexington, but sighs that back home in Madisonville she cannot wear her chic sandals on business calls. She feels that conventional pumps will help encourage citizens to take her seriously. Joe Viens remembers a voter who came in to remind the mayor of his campaign support, then presented a traffic ticket to be fixed. Viens said sorry, the only way he could help would be to pay the fine...
What that course will be is far from certain. As the hearings began, the Administration still seemed about ten votes short of the two-thirds majority needed for Senate approval of SALT II. Even veteran advocates of negotiated arms control such as Committee Chairman Frank Church of Idaho and Republican Committee Member Charles Percy of Illinois were dissatisfied with portions of the pending U.S.-Soviet accord. On only eleven occasions in U.S. history has the upper chamber rejected a treaty. A repudiation this time, after nearly seven years of painstaking negotiations, would severely strain U.S.-Soviet relations. The challenge...
...Schmidt's bias gives his book its power. His knowledge and understanding--both of the folkies and their detractors--lends credibility and a certain ghostliness to his recall. Baby Let Me Follow You Down succeeds where many "rockumentary" efforts fail--these are not idle memories scribbled down for pleasant reading; they are real experiences...
Perhaps it is not too late for judges to restore some balance and to discover that they do share with the press certain common interests, if not a common fate. As New York's Irving R. Kaufman, Chief Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, has written: "Different as the press and the federal judiciary are, they share one distinctive characteristic: both sustain democracy, not because they are responsible to any branch of Government, but precisely because, except in the most extreme cases, they are not accountable at all. Thus they are able to check the irresponsibility of those...