Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only when he broods on the wasteful internal combustion engine that MacArthur comes as close as he knows how to discouragement. "We won't get out of the gasoline car till we're driven out with whips," he says. One night, when the Department of Commerce and a couple or three Government agencies had failed to answer MacArthur's latest jeremiads - in which he likes to point out that there is, in fact, an Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Development Act on the books (and when are the feds going to do more than press release...
...happiest and best-adjusted homosexuals were those in a "close-coupled" relationship, the equivalent of a good heterosexual marriage...
...renewed fighting was touched off by a bitter feud involving the country's three major Christian factions: Pierre Gemayel's Phalangists, Camille Chamoun's National Liberals, and forces loyal to former President Suleiman Franjieh, a close ally of Syrian President Hafez Assad. The dispute centers on the fact that Gemayel and Chamoun would like to create a separate Christian state in northern Lebanon, while Franjieh supports a unified nation. Franjieh also believes the country's sovereignty is best guaranteed by the presence of the Syrian army...
...principal device used by the Burger Court in the past to cut down on the judicial activism of the Warren Court was simply to "close the door"-to keep civil rights or constitutional claims out of federal court. But this year the Justices surprised many court watchers by opening a number of doors. Reversing a 1961 decision written by liberal Justice William O. Douglas, the court ruled that municipalities do not enjoy immunity from civil rights suits. Similarly, the court held that high federal officials could be held personally liable for violating the Constitution, except in those "exceptional situations" where...
Boston's failure to make the 1977 playoffs was expensive for Levin, despite the continually good attendence during the regular season. But a new franchise in San Diego gets Levin off the Boston hook and moves him out near his home and close to his West Coast business interests...