Word: court
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Freshmen Marty Clark and Josh Horwitz owned the courts, each controlling the "T"--the center of the court--from the start. Seventh-seeded Horwitz, who's had a "long, ongoing rivalry" with his opponent, Dudley Nostrond, used his newly-acquired, explosive, deceiving forehand to annihilate his opponent, 15-6, 15-8, 15-6. Clark, playing at fifth seed, didn't even let his opponent in the door, shutting...
...When Eastern's pilots and flight attendants walked out in support of striking machinists last March, they helped force the airline into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Their hopes that the U.S. bankruptcy court would impose an acceptable settlement were dashed as the Chapter 11 proceedings dragged on and Eastern hired new nonunion workers to replace the strikers. Last week the pilots and flight attendants gave up. The machinists still pin their hopes on the court...
...career as well as marriage and three kids. She definitely expects her husband -- present or future -- to do his share of the dusting, the diapering, the dinner and dishes. She would be outraged were she paid less than a male colleague for doing equal work. Ask about the Supreme Court's Webster decision last summer allowing states more leeway to restrict abortions: she'll probably bristle about a woman's right to chose...
Sullivan may have lost control of HHS even before he was confirmed as its chief. Shortly after he was nominated, Sullivan alarmed antiabortion groups by remarks he made in a newspaper interview in which he appeared to support the Supreme Court's pro-abortion Roe v. Wade decision. Soon after, the beleaguered nominee met with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a pro-life Republican who had the power to thwart the nomination. Hatch, who says his intervention came at the request of the President, presented Sullivan with his own list of pro-life- approved candidates for top jobs in the department...
...does not judge a democracy by the way its soldiers immediately react, young men and women under tremendous provocation. One judges a democracy by the way its courts react, in the dispassionate cool of judicial chambers. And the Israeli Supreme Court and other courts--have reacted magnificently. For the first time in the Mid East history, there is an independent judiciary willing to listen to the grievances of Arabs--that judiciary is called the Israeli Supreme Court...