Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...punting situation was a different matter. Alan Hall handled the punting duties and was fair at best, averaging a semi-respectable 32.6 yards per kick, but getting off a number of 20-yard stinkers in the process...
This Tuesday the bearish federal judge and former law professor, who is as amiable in person as he is controversial in his concepts, will begin three days of intensive grilling by the 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bork and his supporters will argue that he is a fair, open-minded, brilliant jurist whose philosophy of judicial restraint represents a reasonable antidote to 30 years of excessive social activism by the court. His foes, led by Chairman Joseph Biden, will seek to show that he is a right-wing radical whose opinions and writings reveal a reading...
...could be his undoing. When Secretary of State George Shultz testified on South Africa last summer, Biden's angry attack on Shultz left some viewers with an intemperate image of the Senator. As Biden concedes, "Exposure is good only if you do well, only if you appear knowledgeable and fair." Both Democrat DeConcini and Republican Hatch have warned somewhat hyperbolically that if Bork's opponents on the committee attack the judge too aggressively, it could spoil the Democrats' chances of regaining the White House...
...more direct in responding to the growing criticism about air safety and airport delays. "That's just not fair," she protests after calmly reciting a list of recent measures. Always poised, she is at her most confident defending her department's record. The Harvard-trained lawyer methodically prepares her material and is deft at marshaling facts. But she can be wounded by a stray remark. When told that a Democratic political consultant had joked, "At least no one can say she quit while she was ahead," Dole grew silent, wide-eyed and quietly hurt. "She takes her job very seriously...
...free enterprise, it has brought about the emancipation of a solitary St. Louis defensive back named Norm Thompson. No matter the player, pro football's unique partner-owners have been disinclined to fork over high draft choices for the rights to their brethren's superstar. It is probably fair to say that the owners have competed more strenuously against alien forces like the defunct United States Football League than against one another...