Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unlikely that I will become acandidate," Thornburgh says with an almost sadsmile on his face. "But I have to keep my optionsopen...
...week's end White House aides had disclosed the names of nine potential successors, but several appeared to face difficulties. Hatch and Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama, a conservative Democrat, are likely to run afoul of a provision in Article I of the Constitution that prevents any member of Congress from being appointed to a federal position that was voted a salary increase during that term of office. This may keep the Senators from taking court seats, since Congress approved a pay increase for Supreme Court Justices last February...
People still bring suits, though; prominent among them are cases involving public figures who should know exactly how arduous a battle they face. Televangelist Pat Robertson is in the early stages of a case brought against Representative Andrew Jacobs Jr. and former Representative Paul McCloskey Jr., who accused Robertson of evading combat during the Korean War by using the influence of his father, the late U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson. The Milwaukee Journal is being sued by a former Democratic state representative, the Chicago Sun-Times by a former president of the city council, and WCCO-TV, the Minneapolis affiliate...
...Pennsylvania, which may have the most litigious political hierarchy in the nation, media organizations, large and small, have repeatedly been sued. The hardest hit: the Philadelphia Inquirer and its sister paper the Daily News face pending suits by two of the seven judges of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a state appellate judge, the president of the Philadelphia city council, a former Philadelphia mayor, a former district attorney and a former U.S. attorney...
...Convention: How 55 strong-minded "demigods" actually drafted the Constitution in the hot summer of 1787. Living: Across the country, the Bicentennial inspires revelry, pageantry and serious debate. -- What if the Founding Fathers were to face a modern media blitz? Food: Philly is a cradle of American cuisine...