Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arkansas law has been struck down by every lower tribunal, and the Supreme Court is likely to do the same. Says Professor Tracey Maclin of Boston University Law School: "The court realizes this is a pressing issue. If they duck this case, another one will come up soon. This is a good vehicle for stopping the whole movement in its tracks." Nevertheless, laws limiting the terms of state officials, which have generally been upheld by lower courts and are not at issue in next week's Supreme Court case, have changed the nature of political activity from the school board...
...When the Senate Republican leader wanted to make Administration officials jump, he merely had to fire off a few faxes. Sent while the President was vacationing in Hawaii, the faxes amounted to ransom notes, lists of demands to be met in return for Dole's support when a lame-duck Congress votes this week on the world-trade pact known as GATT. On the receiving end were White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor. Within 24 hours, all three were seated across from Dole, sipping orange juice and coffee...
...treaty. The efforts of Dole and some Republican strategists to link approval of GATT to a cut in the capital-gains tax -- a perennial on the G.O.P.'s wish list -- came to naught. Legislation putting GATT into effect will be voted on this week at a special lame-duck session of Congress...
...talking about what an honor it was to have her," Malleis continued. "They tried to duck out. I think Levin would have torn their heads...
...right; the Internet is not the real world. The Cornell suicide-watch should have spent a bit more time around those two famous Ithaca gorges, instead of monitoring thousands of lame-duck messages on the network...