Word: finding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must find some way to drive out of the business the utility companies that prove to be incompetent...
...sources agree that Burger has been found lacking on both counts. A Justice's written opinion is his most effective tool of persuasion. ''Votes change in the writing perhaps more often than in conference,'' says Justice Byron R. White. Yet Burger's colleagues find that drafts of his opinions often carry mistakes or gaps of logic; of the final product, Stanford Constitutional Expert Gerald Gunther says, ''Only in rare opinions do you get a carefully thought-out, well-developed argument...
...There are just more hard and more deserving cases than there used to be,'' says White. To day the court hands down more than half again as many written opinions as it did 25 years ago, and at term's end, the Justices often find ''themselves rushing to finish their drafts. Says Powell: "The pressure of time prevents us from going from chamber to chamber to work things out. The lack of opportunity for collegiality diminishes as the case load increases...
...international bankers find this money eminently spendable. If Exxon earns $100 million on sales in Europe and deposits it in a U.S. bank's Lon don branch, the money becomes Eurodollars, and the bank can lend it to some other company to build a plant in Turin or Trenton. Because the dol lars are outside the U.S., the bank is free from Federal Reserve rules that require it to keep as much as 16.25% of its U.S. demand deposits frozen rather than loaned out. Since this free dom lowers the bank's costs, it can pay perhaps...
...business has boomed into a vast factory, belching out theses, dissertations, books, articles, catalogues of trivia, notes and querulousness. Raw material is naturally at a premium. If a single word that Faulkner wrote and neglected to destroy has not been discovered, some professorial truffle hound will doubtless find and publish...