Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unions may have trouble working together. Says Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: "His departure is as important as his presence. It's like a $100 bill that has been changed into a number of smaller bills. Politicians are going to have to court the AFL-CIO as an organization, not as an individual." Kirkland, 57, who is expected to succeed Meany, is esteemed for his intellect but not for his leadership. Partly for love of power, partly for love of labor, Meany put off the day of reckoning as long as he could...
...aide to Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., who named him to the bench in 1978. Previously he had been California's first state public defender and a state deputy attorney general. Fellow jurists who know his work have nothing but praise for him. Says San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Harry W. Low, until recently president of the California Judges' Association: "He's got an excellent legal mind and a good sense of being able to relate to people." Adds Lawyer James J. Brosnahan, an ex-president of the San Francisco Bar Association: "His opinions showed...
...MATEP will be. The community says Harvard should have done its planning earlier; Harvard says the evidence is on its side. The DEQE commissioner, meanwhile, is damned if he says yes and damned if he says no. Either way, it looks like one group will take the other to court--and the MATEP saga will drone endlessly...
...upholding their traditional right to home-rule--local self-determination in some areas of jurisdiction, including whether to locate a nuke in town. This right has been totally overrun. New England residents have fought through years of regulatory and licensing procedures to stop the plant, but after numerous court orders to halt construction--and subsequent higher court overrulings of these orders--construction continues at the rate of three shifts...
...original trial court ruled that the three men acted in a "joint enterprise," and all received mandatory life sentences with no possibility of parole...