Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan will expectably defend his economic program, contending that the second-stage income tax cut of 10%, which takes effect July 1, will fuel a strong recovery from the current recession. During that recovery, he will doubtless predict, inflation and interest rates will continue to decline and unemployment will markedly turn down...
...temper our conduct in the world." This was certainly not the message that former President Carter sought to convey when he ratified the Selective Service Act shortly after Russia invaded Afghanistan. The expressed purpose of registration was to demonstrate that we were over the "Vietnam Syndrome" and prepared to defend our national interests. Our current president found the need to extend registration because he has "discovered" that the time saved in the event of an actual draft is much greater than the five to seven days which the Selective Service has advertised since the reactivation of registration. Conveniently, the extension...
...that Iran would be ripe for a U.S.-backed counterrevolution. His deal: increased Soviet protection, presumably in the form of arms and technical advisers, in exchange for a formal five-to ten-year "friendship and mutual assistance treaty" between the U.S.S.R. and Iran. The Kremlin would stand ready to defend Iran against "foreign-led subversion...
Last week's actions were a welcome end to a seemingly endless litigation nightmare that had enmeshed both the Government and the defendants for so many years. As the two cases progressed and the companies struggled to defend themselves against Washington's charges, whole warehouses filled up with paperwork, armies of attorneys found steady employment, and cumulative corporate legal fees climbed into the hundreds of millions of dollars. The AT&T case alone cost the company an estimated $360 million and the Government $15 million. After the settlement was announced, AT&T President William Ellinghaus said, with...
Fundamentalist lawyers believe they will make a better fight of it in an upcoming federal trial on a similar law in Louisiana. Unlike Arkansas, Louisiana will not have to defend as pure science the hardline beliefs in a worldwide flood at the time of Noah, or the "relatively recent" creation of the world-about 10,000 years ago. The Louisiana law, says Attorney General William Guste, "requires only the teaching of facts that point to creation and does not say what facts. The Arkansas law mixes science and religious teaching. Louisiana's law does...