Word: frequently
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Dole's selection as majority leader had a domino effect on key committee chairmanships. Oregon's Bob Packwood, a frequent Reagan critic, will succeed Dole as head of the Finance Committee, wielding power over the Administration's tax-reform plan when and if it is sent to Capitol Hill. "I sort of like the tax code the way it is," Packwood told the Washington Post last week...
...according to a frequent visitor to the Supreme Court, Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe '62. Rehnquist's argument is dubious at best. He says that "Reagan can certainly find judges who are ideologically predictable." He goes on to cite the example of the Hughes Court which contained six appointees of the conservative President Taft. In the 1930's these by then old men struck down piece after piece of New Deal legislation in what the professor describes as the "Dark Age of the Supreme Court...
...life of his family, his environment and traditions. And so, like any father, Monsieur can play favorites with his children, finding small pleasure in the weekly visits of his dutiful son, gasping for the breath of fresh life the mercurial Irène brings with her in her in frequent appearances. Like any grandparent, he can pamper or scold the little ones. Like any widower, he can surge into reveries of his dead wife, see her sitting in that chair, her chair...
Lincoln Caplan, a lawyer by training and frequent contributor to the New Yorker, manages in his book, The Insanity Defense and the Trial of John W. Hinckley Jr., to do what his friends in the press had little time to do. He has sifted the evidence, researched the precedents, and projected the Hinckley case outside itself and into a more general and philosophical consideration of the issues. All the while, he subtly weaves his argument and day by day New Yorker-style descriptions ("Jo Ann Moore Hinckley ... wore a salmon-pink outfit, with Peter Pan collar and bow, and spoke...
...Marxist elements, they perceived the need to maintain a powerful standing army for three reasons: first, to provide an internally repressive force to control the populace; second, to serve as a vehicle for indoctrination of most young Nicaraguan men and women, and for indirect indoctrination of older Nicaraguans through frequent drills, rallies, and "defense alerts" against potential U.S. invasion and finally, to be used as a tool of aggression against Nicaraguan's non-Marklet neighbors...