Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justices' unpredictable attitudes, however, can lead to considerable confusion. Lengthy multiple-opinion decisions have become frequent. Says University of Chicago Constitutional Expert Philip Kurland: "Every lawyer searches for something he likes, and there is something for everyone. They have everything but the kitchen sink in them." Many blame the sheer number of cases the Justices tackle each year. Says University of Chicago Law Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "They are so busy and so overworked, they cannot talk so much to each other. So they usually wind up speaking to each other in print...
...prime qualities every highflying avatar needs: a restless imagination and a roving eye. "Never wear a new pair of shoes in front of him," his friend Mick Jagger once joked. People or music, the pattern is the same. Says his old crony and frequent producer Tony Visconti: "David will spend a very passionate, intense time with someone he loves, and he'll take notes. When he has what he wants and things have reached the point of stagnation, he goes...
Anguish was not Franz Kafka's central obsession. It was his only one: the misery of illness, the descending sorrows of guilt, estrangement and despair. Torment stains every page of his fiction, and his autobiographical writings are so clotted with disorders that one collection states: "Frequent references to insomnia and headache have not been included in the index...
...those ironic twists of Washington political life that Reagan was attacked by one Ruckelshaus even as he was rescued by another. Jill Ruckelshaus, Bill's strong-minded and outspoken wife, has been in the vanguard of frequent anti-Reagan reports that issue from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Last month the commission accused Reagan of not appointing enough women and minorities to Government posts, and of limiting the investigation of sex discrimination at private and public schools and colleges...
...when he and two fellow aeronauts made the first transatlantic crossing in the silvery Double Eagle II; in a balloon crash; in Brückenau, West Germany. After amassing a mining fortune, Anderson took up ballooning as "a way of entering history." In his final flight, Anderson and frequent Co-Pilot Don Ida, 49, were desperately trying to land before drifting into East Germany when their gondola became detached and the two adventurers plunged 2,000 ft. to their deaths...