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Amendment opponents insist that organized, vocal prayer can never be truly voluntary. Children of different faiths, or none, will feel themselves forced by social pressure to join in. Contends Rabbi Balfour Brickner of Manhattan's Stephen Wise Free Synagogue: "If the prayer is spoken, it will be physically coercive, and if silent it will be psychologically coercive." The alternative, opponents contend, is to offer prayers so general as to be meaningless, even offensive to the truly religious. The establishment of a neutered "civil religion" is offensive to many who believe deeply in their own faiths. Says Robert Minor, professor...
...defense will contend that De Lorean thought he was meeting with legitimate businessmen to persuade them to invest in his car company. But De Lorean's lawyers must overcome the evidence on five hours of videotapes and 58 audio recordings that will be the heart of the Government's case. The defense will also try to destroy the credibility of a main prosecution witness, James Timothy Hoffman, a former drug dealer and onetime California neighbor of De Lorean's, who helped get De Lorean involved with the undercover agents. The defense will claim that Hoffman enticed...
...economists and industry experts. They contend that there is no reason why the combination of Gulf and Socal should not continue to do nearly as much exploration as the two were doing separately. In addition, they note that if the stock value of oil companies continues to go up, the resulting higher value for reserves swill encourage more drilling. Even the effect on crude prices will be slight. Economist Alan Greenspan of the Townsend-Greenspan consulting firm observes, "These mergers are, in the world scheme, not terribly relevant. Even if they were, it is a competitive market, and no matter...
...blame for the growth in libel litigation in recent years. Said former Secretary of State William Rogers, who represented a group of civil rights activists associated with the Times in the 1964 case: "The press has been partly irresponsible." The keynote speaker, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Irving Kaufman, contended that the results in libel cases may be distorted by jurors' distaste for journalism. Said Kaufman: "Broadcast and print media are perceived by some as aloof, arrogant and insensitive." News organizations eventually prevail in more than 90% of libel cases, according to the Libel Defense Resource Center...
Above all, Hart must contend with a system that was deliberately designed, by packing all primaries and caucuses into a short period between Feb. 20 and June 5, to prevent a dark-horse candidate from gradually building strength and parlaying a surprise showing into the nomination...