Word: filed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...department was using him as an example to future Government concentrators, he was told. But he knew the real truth; he knew that unseen forces were at work behind closed doors, plotting to ruin his life. And they had the advantage: They could see his closed, confidential file. It was all too real...
...world is probably about evenly divided between delayers and do-it-nowers. There are those who prepare their income taxes in February, prepay mortgages and serve precisely planned dinners at an ungodly 6:30 p.m. The other half dine happily on leftovers at 9 or 10, misplace bills and file for an extension of the income tax deadline. They seldom pay credit-card bills until the apocalyptic voice of Diners threatens doom from Denver. They postpone, as Faustian encounters, visits to barbershop, dentist or doctor...
...exactly at eleven, as many servants as there are of gentlemen and ladies, come in with each of them two wax candles, and in procession we follow to the gallery at the head of the great staircase, and file off of different rooms. This is high life: but I would not have parted with my humble cottage at Milton for the sake...
Similarly, on Capitol Hill last week, Democratic and Republican leaders alike tried to quell rank-and-file congressional demands that Nixon step down and save the nation the trauma of impeachment and trial. Senate Democratic Whip Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia warned that a forced resignation would polarize the nation. "A significant portion of our citizens would feel that the President had been driven from office by his political enemies," he said. "The question of guilt or innocence would never be fully resolved." Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield declared that "resignation is not the answer." House Speaker Carl Albert...
Some 20 states have already instituted some form of no-fault plan. But most have been timid versions that leave plenty of access to the courtroom. That is an ineffective solution; insurers generally agree that the right to file suit must be sharply limited if a no-fault plan is to work. Further, though insurers have tried hard to work out a system for peaceful coexistence of fault and no-fault systems in nearby states, some legal complexities remain. For example, if drivers from the fault states of Texas and Mississippi run into each other in New York, they...