Word: coequal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelve-minute work cycles) for this, and for lectures by Bo and Peep. The Two proclaim that Bo has been Jesus, Elijah and Moses in his former lives. The spacecraft is imminently expected. It will carry believers to an enigmatic "garden" where they will get "energy" from their coequal, the King of Kings, alias Chief of Chiefs, the god who created planet earth. Believers will live eternally in hairless, toothless bodies that are free of disease and decay. Groll scoffs about possible parallels between the camp discipline and the tragic end of Jonestown: "Anyone can walk away. We just have...
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger strenuously dissented, arguing that the majority decision "invaded historic, fundamental principles of the separate powers of coequal branches of government." Burger added that the verdict "may well be a 'ghost' at future White House conferences, with conferees choosing their words more cautiously because of the enlarged prospect of compelled disclosure to others." Dissenting Justice William H. Rehnquist was equally vehement: "Today's decision countenances the power of any future Congress to seize the official papers of an outgoing President as he leaves the inaugural stand...
...members' quests for unshared power. Octavian outmaneuvered his fellow triumvirs-Mark Antony and Lepidus-to become undisputed ruler of ancient Rome, and Soviet history is littered with collective leaderships that failed. Following Lenin's death, Stalin served on two consecutive triumvirates, each time ruthlessly eliminating his supposedly coequal partners. After Stalin, the various members of the Kremlin's new collective kept vying with each other for supremacy until Nikita Khrushchev emerged...
...confirmation vote was the last major act of the remarkable 93rd Congress, which adjourns this week. It will be remembered chiefly not for landmark legislation but for dealing with the greatest constitutional crisis in U.S. history and for taking steps to restore the Legislative Branch as more nearly coequal to the Executive in power and public respect. Such an outcome seemed wildly improbable when the 93rd took office on Jan. 3, 1973, for then even some of its members questioned whether the seemingly docile body could ever rouse itself and shake off domination by the increasingly powerful White House...
...knows more," is the often voiced sentiment). The office, having reached out to meet the crisis of the 1930s, then a world war, and finally the cold war with its threat of apocalypse, has grown so huge that it dominates and distorts a Government built upon the principle of coequal branches...