Word: circuits
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Wanniski became Laffer's most avid apostle and spread the gospel of tax cutting with all the fervor of a circuit-riding preacher. An important early convert was Jack Kemp, a New York Congressman and former quarterback with the Buffalo Bills. In 1977 Kemp, together with Senator William Roth Jr. of Delaware, introduced a bill in Congress to reduce personal income taxes by almost 33% over three years...
...rate. Indianapolis Lawyer J. Richard Kiefer calls the convict's research "incredibly good.'' Once Kiefer gave the same project to Owen and several law students; Owen was the first to uncover the three precedents that Kiefer needed. Says John Gubbins, senior staff attorney for the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago: "In the area of habeas corpus and prisoners' civil rights, he is probably as good as any lawyer practicing...
...about $120. Texas Instruments, a pioneer in "talking" computer chips, is the leading producer of these less expensive aids. (Others: Mattel, Coleco, Milton Bradley.) In 1978 TI introduced Speak & Spell, a talking learning aid, which imitated the human voice-questioning, coaching and correcting the user -with an integrated circuit on a single silicon chip. On a later machine, called Speak & Read ($75), a child can complete sentences at three levels of difficulty by pressing letters on a keyboard to spell out the correct words. For example, the machine slowly enunciates, "I want to try to-"and then flashes three choices...
Changes in the Harvard schedule could also discourage the Crimson's playoff hopes. For the first time, the squad is part of the Greater Boston circuit, meaning it will take on powers like B.U. and B.C., and Tufts, MIT and Brandeis. National power U.Conn. has been dropped from the slate, along with Williams and Amherst. But the scheduling people more than made up for that by pitting the Crimson against tournament-bound Hartwick, and U.R.I. and UMass...
...profit institution and now they wish to disregard that and have the plant considered part of Harvard. It's clear from the law that you can't," says Jerome Aaron, the attorney who will represent Mission Hill in the EPA appeal, which is scheduled to begin in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...