Word: guess
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Sometimes I cry, too, but I guess with shame, not hunger. I urge you to send a telegram or mailgram to your senators (address: U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510), asking them to support S. Res. 264 and a two-year reauthorization of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. Please
Despite the Finance Committee's action, the wellhead tax is not dead. The House has approved the tax, and when the House-Senate conference meets, it may well be resurrected. What form it might take is anybody's guess. The conference could adopt Carter's rebate plan, Long's trust-fund scheme, or, what seems to many observers to be the most sensible compromise of all, a plan to rebate some of the money to consumers and some to the oil and gas companies...
...muscular, mustachioed sometime terrorist who now lives in Colorado and, at 32, describes himself as "retired." As José tells it, the F.A.L.N. is just one element-the noisiest, to be sure-in a rather fluid Puerto Rican terrorist community. Although its size is difficult even to guess at-estimates range between a few dozen members to hundreds-the community is said to be run by separate "central committees" in Puerto Rico and on the U.S. mainland. On the island, says José, terrorist cells tend to have half a dozen or more members. But for security reasons mainland cells...
...broader scale, the court has shown increasing reluctance to settle questions better left to "the normal processes of democracy [such as legislatures or regents boards]." It has at times declined, in cases involving schools, to second-guess educational professionals. Cox encouraged that approach, urging the Justices to leave the details of experimentation in race conciliation matters to local experts. The diversity of states and their universities is "one of the greatest sources of creativity in this country," he said...
Harry Wellington, dean of the Yale Law School: "My guess is that they will reverse the California Supreme Court and send the case back for reexamination. They likely will say it is permissible to take race into account but a predetermined number or quota may not be acceptable. I would not be surprised if there were as many as five or even nine opinions...