Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authorized by a candidate--can spend only $1,000 touting their choice. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 last week that such limits are a violation of free speech. Justice William Rehnquist, writing for the majority, compared it to "allowing a speaker in a public hall to express his views while denying him the use of an amplifying system." Actually, the limit on independent expenditures has never been enforced, partly because two lower courts found it unconstitutional. As a result, the National Conservative Political Action Committee spent almost $10 million in 1984 on pro-Reagan activities, and other...
...last December. Evening news programs showed Gorbachev and the Politburo delegation as they paused inside the House of Trade Unions to contemplate the alabaster profile of Chernenko; the open coffin was set high amid a bank of purple, red and white flowers. At one point, Gorbachev bent over to express his condolences to Chernenko's widow Anna. Gorbachev's wife Raisa was seated at her side. During the 42 hours that Chernenko's body lay in state, convoys of buses brought groups of party faithful, many of them workers and farmers from outlying regions, to swell the crowds that waited...
...meet rising expenses. Pan Am is already saddled with stiff operating costs. Its pilots, for instance, are among the highest paid in the U.S. The captain of a Pan Am Boeing 747 jetliner can earn $150,000 annually for an average 55 flight hours each month. At People Express, pilots of similar jets make $40,000 a year while flying closer to the industry average of 85 hours. Said Robert Joedicke, a transportation analyst for Shearson Lehman Bros.: "Pan Am has to set an example. It has to hold the line...
Some Democrats addressed the issue of how to express the party's goals in order to attract voters...
Although not part of the official U.S. delegation to the funeral of Seviet Premier Konstantin U. Chernenko last week in Moscow, Cambridge City Councilor Francis H. Duchay '55 payed a visit to the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. to express his condolences to Chernenko's family and people on behalf of the people of Cambridge...