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Word: eral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expecting too much to get clear and ringing answers,'' says Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe. ''Yes, this court is un even and divided; it is feeling its way. But to do otherwise would undermine the credibility of the institution.'' If the lib eral Warren Court has not become the conservative Burger Court, if the Nixon appointees have failed to march in lock step, it should come as no surprise. It is merely a reflection of the integrity, and In deed sensitivity to U.S. society at large, of the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Inside the High Court | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...whose victims were prostitutes, police have mounted the biggest manhunt in British history. Since the killer claimed his eleventh victim in April, a 300-man "Ripper squad" has scoured the "triangle of terror" in West Yorkshire and Lancashire, where the murders have taken place. Using information provided by sev eral women who survived his assault, police have circulated a description of a powerfully built suspect between 30 and 45. Authorities are also trying to take advantage of the fact that British accents can be very distinctive. Experts who have analyzed the Ripper's flat, unemotional voice believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Striking Again | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...example, in Iran, where ISC sales averaged $60 million annually in recent years, the company, in pursuit of a $350 million pulp-and-paper project, paid sev eral groups of agents $11.3 million of a $22.3 million commitment. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Bitter Payoff at ISC | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Enforcement of the state ERAS varies from negligible in Virginia to considerable in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. But in gen eral, says the Civil Rights Com mission, the effect "has been one of substantial strides toward equality," achieved in an orderly way. Some results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Evolution, Not Revolution | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

James Goodale, executive vice president of the Times for legal matters, points out that Nixon got a hearing before turning over his papers. And though U.S. Attorney Gen eral Griffin Bell was recently cited for contempt for protecting FBI sources, nobody put him in jail, like Farber, while the appeals went on. Yet a federal judge in New Jersey, refusing to release Farber and calling him "evil," ruled so intemperately that he didn't even get his facts straight. The Farber case seems to have this effect. He had "discovered" that Farber had a $75,000 advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: When the Law and the Press Collide | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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