Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somber figure in a dark gray suit, stood uncertainly. When it came, the response was low and fatigued: "Not guilty." With that, former Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe, 50, once a rising star of British politics, last week went on trial in London's Old Bailey criminal court for conspiracy and incitement to murder...
...Hebron. In late April, a group of Jewish women and children occupied a vacant building in Hebron that was once used as a Jewish hospital; their aim, they said, was to take over all buildings in the town that had ever been owned by Jews. After the Israeli Supreme Court ordered that a parcel of confiscated land be returned to Arab control, vandals destroyed Arab grapevines on the property. On May 2, Israel's independence day, thousands of supporters of the fanatical Gush Emunim movement marched through Arab villages to proclaim their right to settle wherever .they wished...
...meeting occurred just as antitrust was being pushed beyond its old boundaries on Capitol Hill and in the courts. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the so-called Illinois Brick Bill by a 9-to-8 vote, led by Chairman Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Prospects for passage in the full Senate and House are doubtful, but, if enacted, the bill would overturn a 1977 Supreme Court decision. Not only could middlemen and retailers sue and collect treble damages from a company for antitrust violations, but so too could individual consumers who join together in class actions. Businessmen fear that...
...words of Justice Bazelon's Court of Appeals opinion in the same case, though reversed by the Supreme Court, now resonate with a special prescience: "To the extent that uncertainties necessarily underlie predictions of this importance on the frontiers of science and technology, there is a concomitant necessity to confront and explore fully the depth of such uncertainties." The Supreme Court thought otherwise and gagged the public...
...exempting the nuclear power industry from the salutary effects of full liability, by denying the American public its rights to just compensation, and by countenancing hearings which wouldn't pass muster in a county courthouse, Congress and the Supreme Court are degrading and endangering the public's rights to safety and participation...