Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...match didn't mean a heckuva lot, really. Harvard had already won the team competition to secure a second-place league finish (behind Princeton) by the time Roberts and Chaikovsky took the court. By the time they left the court, though, the Crimson racquetmen were hugging and screaming as if they had just won the seventh game of the World Series...
...other two doubles matches had resulted in easy Harvard wins, so the whole Crimson squad gathered around the court now in a huddled silence. Roberts served and after an extended rally hit a desperation lob high into the lights. "There's no way you can see the ball in those lights," Chaikovsky said. "The guy hit it off the top of his racquet, and the ball landed about four courts down...
...April 1978 the Supreme Court paved the way for further advances in corporate political power. The Court, in the case of First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, declared unconstitutional a Massachusetts state law prohibiting corporations from spending money to influence state-wide initiataive campaigns when the issue at stake does not materially affect them. (Note that even this powerful law could not and did not prevent soft drink manufacturers from spending money to defeat the bottle bill initiative.) Justice Powell, in writing the majority opinion, stated: "[Free speech] is indispensable to decisionmaking in a democracy, and this...
Unfortunately, the history of Congressional neglect, of public rights toward the nuclear power industry has been exacerbated by the Supreme Court and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Writing for the majority in Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power v. Natural Resources Defence Council (1978), Justice Rehnquist held that community and environmental representatives had no right to question either private industry spokesmen or agency officials about the quality and meaning of their data and findings at NRC licensing hearings. Rehnquist rode roughshod over the public, turning the administrative hearing procedure into an empty exercise where the hallmark of due process, the right to question...
Droney said that retrieving the coins did not involve granting any concessions to the men found guilty of the theft. "Their cases are coming before the Appellate Court for review in June, and the return of the coins may work in their favor," Droney added...