Word: dockets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...units. In early October the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC) proposed a plan for curtailing ROTC's privileges, including the removal of academic credit from all ROTC courses. But the resolution had no formal influence, so the faculty-less HUC began to work toward placing the issue on the Faculty docket. Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, offered to introduce the HUC resolution to the Faculty...
...judges?and he took it himself. That was partly because he had a relatively light docket at the time, but also because he felt that if he as a Republican judge handled the matter, and did so fairly and aggressively, no charges could be leveled that partisanship had entered the judicial process...
Moreover, the 14 trials were completed in eleven working days; normally, McCrystal estimated, they would have stretched over 40 to 45 days with delays. He thinks that he could double his docket without adding personnel...
...crowded police-court docket, said Mark Twain, is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty. The current season would seem to bear him out, with a slight twist. There is brisk betting and plentiful money riding on a schedule that is up to its antenna in crooks and crime, cops and private eyes, crusading attorneys and special investigators...
...contrast, the issues on the court's actual docket are not, concedes one Justice, "particularly exciting." Nonetheless, important cases are pending in which the Justices are asked...