Word: considerable
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Having found no language in the constitution, the court went on to consider the government's argument that the "common law" must provide an executive privilege against forced disclosures. Noting its reluctance to create new laws, rights or privileges, the court said the issue was a policy question best left...
DeLillo's hypothesis about the Kennedy assassination is similar. American intelligence officers, frustrated by the Bay of Pigs fiasco and Kennedy's diplomatic reconciliation with Castro, hoped to force Kennedy's hand. They planned to stage an attempt on Kennedy's life, a near miss. They would plant clues that...
Consider New Yorker Michael Greenberg, who every winter gathers, repairs and hands out gloves to the homeless. Consider Ray Buchanan and Ken Horne of Big Island, Va., who collect farmers' discarded potatoes and deliver them to the hungry. And consider lanky, 6-ft. 4-in. Graham, 46, and petite, vivacious...
Several states, including Washington, Michigan and New York, have already convened special commissions to consider ways to balance inequities in their systems by, among other things, hiring more blacks at all levels and holding seminars and other training programs to help sensitize white court officers to minority cultures. Programs have...
BUSH'S other alternative down South is Mrs. Dole, the wife of Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.). Mrs. Dole, who is from North Carolina, could help in her homestate, South Carolina and Tennessee. She can also help Bush in the Midwest, in states such as Kansas (where she resides), Missouri...