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With that, Judge Sand declared Yonkers in contempt of court for refusing to obey his order to help private developers build 800 units of moderate-income housing. The judge began levying fines that doubled daily against the city and would leave it bankrupt later this month. Yonkers promptly lost its already poor bond rating, rendering it unable to borrow. Fines of $500 a day were imposed on the recalcitrant councilmen...
...fate of Robert Bork, who himself fell victim to the Senate after a similarly brusing confirmation battle in which his conservative views were treated with the same contempt that once met Fortas' liberal ideas, lingers in the background of this biography. Murphy makes the connection explicit in his preface and his epilogue. But a crucial difference remains...
Ronald Reagan and George Bush have spent eight years running against the government they run. They've shown utter contempt for the institution they head. Dukakis promises to "restore the pride in government" that has waned under Reagan...
...means keeping women in their place. During a civil proceeding, Teitelbaum, 73, threatened Attorney Barbara Wolvovitz with jail because she insisted on referring to herself as Ms. Wolvovitz rather than Mrs. Lobel, after her husband. Protesting in her behalf, Wolvovitz's co-counsel Jon Pushinsky found himself held in contempt and handed a 30-day suspended sentence for "officious intermeddling." When Wolvovitz asked for a mistrial last week, Teitelbaum said, "What if I call you sweetie...
...Government: "Considering how unlike Kennedy Dukakis is, and how little he knew him, and how different their politics are, it is a typically Dukakis answer -- one that reveals absolutely nothing about Michael Dukakis, which is the most revealing thing about it." If anything drove Dukakis into government, it was contempt for the kind of affectionate tales Tip O'Neill tells of the Kennedys in his autobiography -- how, for instance, bribes were paid to potential supporters of Jack. But if he could use the death of Kennedy for a noble purpose, he could, clearly, use the man's life...