Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when all the secrecy was punctured -- which pushed the Marine officer into the difficult spot of trying to avoid portraying his bosses as either a willful part of a cover-up or too meek to defend their policy convictions. North had his most arduous time trying to justify the creation of Casey's covert "slush fund" that not even the President need be told about. (Some of the proposed uses were for U.S.-Israeli operations that North explained in a closed session...
...number of U.S. robotmakers to keep shrinking through the mid-1990s. By that time robotics technology may have taken another impressive leap forward, with the U.S. once again expected to be the technological trailblazer. Advances now being explored in American universities and research laboratories could lead to the creation of machines capable of walking, improvising tasks and seeing (some robots can already do this crudely, through computerized video cameras). By then, the robots' masters may have learned how to exploit their wondrous inventions without falling into the kind of painful doldrums that now afflict their once glamorous industry...
...associate. Bork says he has also stepped back from the radically narrow view of free speech he suggested in a 1971 law-review article. At the time, Bork stated that the First Amendment protects only "speech that is explicitly political" and extends no guarantees to literary or scientific creation. On the D.C. federal appeals bench, however, he has written some opinions strongly upholding free-speech rights. He supported the press in a much cited 1984 libel suit against Syndicated Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, proposing that "those who place themselves in a political arena must accept a degree...
...phrase in the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." As interpreted by the high court, those words forbid incidental aid to parochial schools and religious agencies, posting the Ten Commandments in public classrooms or, in a decision two weeks ago, laws that require teaching "creation science" alongside evolution. Citing the establishment clause, the pro-choice Abortion Rights Mobilization hopes the courts will force the Roman Catholic Church to stop pro-life politicking or lose its tax exemption...
...examination of the "mess." Justices William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor and Byron White have indicated a willingness to lower some church-state barriers, and Antonin Scalia, a conservative who joined the court last year, dissented from overturning a Louisiana law that required equal school treatment for creation science, deeming the court's work on the establishment clause "embarrassing." Powell's replacement, who will become President Reagan's third court appointment, may create a new 5-4 majority favoring a less rigid approach in some church-state cases...