Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as last night's meeting began, Councillor Barbara Ackermann called into question the council's authority to regulate the rent control board. Ackermann asked the city clerk to rule on a state law which gives the board the power to recommend changes in rent control laws...
...clerk ruled that all amendments to the law must originate with the board and that council actions could only express the council's wishes to the board and city manager...
...sandwich wrapped in waxed paper slides uneasily into a seat next to a middle-aged naval officer. Most audiences, however, tend to be young and to contain a far higher than average proportion of blacks and, in some cities, people of Spanish origin. "Voodoo, you know," a black file clerk said matter-of-factly...
...problems at home. My business has gone to hell, I've got debts up to my neck, and the pay they give you for reserve service ($190 a month) doesn't cover everything when you've got three kids and a pregnant wife." Said a bank clerk from Haifa: "You can't depend on the Arabs, but we've had war, war, war It's been that way since Moses left Egypt. And here we are, leaving Egypt again...
Duke's zeal is unusual in that he has spent $3,000 of his own on the Geraway case; moreover, he has little practical experience in criminal matters. A onetime clerk to Justice William O. Douglas, Duke was a tax specialist when he joined the Yale faculty in 1960. There his interests changed. "Who cares whether a corporation pays X dollars or Y dollars?" asks Duke now. "Economists do not even agree on who bears the burden of a corporate tax, so how can you get excited when you can't even tell what people are ultimately paying...