Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of his duties as Chief Justice of the U.S., Earl Warren is responsible for the administration of the entire fed eral court system. It is a job of immense frustration. Some courts have been swamped by the growing crime rate, all of them must struggle to cope with the increasing number of Americans who sue to settle a dispute. Yet in the past five years, only 35 new district judgeships have been added to the existing 307 to deal with the greater work load. The result is anything but speedy trial-particularly in the large urban areas. "Insufferable backlogs...
...machine that, he hopes, will keep kidneys in good condition for as long as three days. About the size of an upright piano, the device contains two Plexiglas cylinders in either of which a kidney may rest on a wire screen. Plasma, fortified with body chemicals and penicillin, is fed to the kidneys' arteries through plastic tubes...
...crime rate in downtown Miami reached critical proportions last December. Robberies had almost doubled since the previous December. Police Chief Walter Headley was "fed up." The day after Christmas, he simply "called in all my commanding officers and told them to change some things. I said we should use dogs to accompany men on the beat. And I said I wanted the force in high-crime areas to carry shotguns. And I said I wanted to concentrate men in these high-crime areas, and that I wanted them to use the stop-and-frisk law more." Word of his crackdown...
Last week a second gold fever gripped Europe and again it was fed by doubts about the strength of the dollar and the international monetary system. On the London market, gold purchases reached some $300 million, many times the nor mal demand. Because the fortunes of sterling and the dollar are closely linked, that was enough to drive the value of the pound down to a record low of $2.392, despite efforts by the Bank of England to prop it up. (In Montreal, quotations in 9210 Canadian dollars registered a comparable price.) Gold sales also soared in Paris, Zurich...
...minimize errors-a major problem in back-office operations-the machine displays each message on its video-type screen so that the clerk can proofread it before pushing the "transmit" button. Best of all, the data is fed directly into a computer that automatically relays it to the proper branch office. The system thus eliminates one of the most time-consuming aspects of back-office paperwork: matching buy and sell reports from exchanges with each customer's original order and passing the word along to the salesman...