Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United Church of Christ is appealing the FCC deregulation in District of Columbia Circuit Court. Many religious groups strongly oppose the commission's move because religious programming, which falls under the category of public service, is no longer mandatory...
...West Pointer (class of '57), Block served for three years in the crack 101st Airborne Division; in 1960 he returned home to build the family farm, then only 300 acres, into the thriving enterprise it is today. He married a circuit judge's daughter, Suzanne Rathje; they have three children, including Hans, 21 who will run things while his father i: in Washington...
Joni (pronounced Johnny) Eareckson doesn't surfer the kind of deformity that causes people to point or stare. With her pretty girl-next-door looks, radiant smile, and pert, no-nonsense personality, she is a popular speaker on the Evangelical Protestant celebrity circuit and to nonreligious groups. As she readily admits, she is treated better than most of her fellow disabled Americans. But Joni Eareckson, 31, is totally paralyzed from the neck down...
...professional rodeo circuit he is known as Mac Baldrige, a steer roper who finishes in the money about a third of the time (for $1,605 in prizes last year). To the uninitiated he is Malcolm Baldrige, chairman of Scovill Inc., a power in Connecticut Republican affairs and a close friend of Vice President-elect George Bush's. As Ronald Reagan's choice for Secretary of Commerce, Baldrige will bring to Washington -a proven capacity for managing, along with the practice lasso he keeps by his desk...
...prosecutors took advantage of an unusual provision in a 1970 law that allows the Government to appeal certain sentences. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal on the grounds that a review of the original sentence would violate the Constitution's prohibition against double jeopardy. But last week the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, that the Constitution does not go that far. It prevents Government appeals of actual verdicts, the Justices ruled, but not of sentences. The decision, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, seemed to some experts to cut two ways. While it may comfort hard...