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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only in the future can we know if Sandra O'Connor becomes an outstanding or mediocre Justice. But certainly others who prefer a different candidate should be able to express their preference without being savaged and ridiculed in the media or by a U.S. Senator...
With an uncaring right and an impotent left, where can the poor people of my onetime home town, Liverpool, go but to the streets to express their frustration and anger...
Still, the Senate committee's final statement on Casey was a compromise. Some Senators, including Washington's Henry Jackson, Texas' Lloyd Bentsen and Rhode Island's John Chafee, had urged the committee to express its "absolute confidence" in Casey. Others, including Goldwater, New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, wanted to avoid any pronouncement until the investigation of Casey's background was complete. Instead, the committee found him merely "not unfit" to continue...
Venture capitalists prefer to tell tales of their big scores: the $1.5 million stake in Apple Computer in 1978 by Venrock Associates that grew to $100 million or the $25 million investment in 1974 by New Court Securities Corp. and others in Federal Express, the airfreight company, that is currently valued at $1.2 billion...
...only wins and losses that counted were on the playing fields. So halfway to freedom somebody says, "Wait a minute, we can beat these guys." Back up the ladder and into the stadium they go, in search of at least a moral victory and, as none of them would express it, an assertion of civilian values-their camp leaders are against cooperating in a propagandizable sporting event, all for the escape-over military necessity...