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Last week the campaign denied any connection with the hapless caper. Gephardt Spokesman Don Foley said Dinsmore was an independent consultant, not a full-time campaign official. "Dinsmore was doing this on his own," insisted Foley. As for Dinsmore's $1,200-a-month stipend in September and October and a lofty title engraved on business cards, Foley replied, "We're going to take his business cards back...
Unlike the hapless Ginsburg, Kennedy offers an extensive record for the Senators to study; as an appellate judge he participated in 1,400 decisions and personally wrote more than 400 opinions. At least two have made legal history. In 1980 he ruled against the so-called legislative veto, a once common practice under which Congress would grant certain authority to the Executive Branch but reserve to itself the right to disapprove particular actions exercising that authority. Kennedy declared that the practice violated the constitutional separation of powers. In a 1983 dissent, Kennedy argued that a court should admit evidence gathered...
Indeed, Brazilian authorities were dealing with the worst known episode of radioactive contamination in the West. In mid-September, a hapless junkyard dealer in Goiania (pop. 1.2 million), a city about 120 miles southwest of Brasilia, had pried open a lead cylinder containing a capsule of radioactive cesium 137, an isotope used for treating cancer. The canister had been sold to him as scrap from an abandoned local medical clinic. During the next six days, more than 200 townspeople were exposed to and at least one even ate the deadly bluish powder before Brazilian officials could contain the contamination...
...uniform is a tacky red, white and blue, instead of the familiar white and red. The number on the back is 20 instead of 24, but there is no mistaking the dashing figure of Allen Bourbeau as he relentlessly weaves through the hapless opposing defensemen...
...huddled under two quilts, a sleeping bag and a wool blanket--dressed in a sweatshirt, jeans and two pairs of socks--I thought of calling our hapless flunky again, but decided against it. If the University cannot figure out that rooms get cold when the temperature dips into the 30s, can it be expected to turn on the heat--all the while adhering to its procedural requirements--at some ungodly hour of the morning...