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...revived the issue in this election year as a way to rally his conservative core constituency. Even though the Executive Branch has no official constitutional role in the amendment process, Reagan endorsed a version of the proposal that would have permitted spoken prayer in classrooms. When conservative Republican Orrin Hatch drew up an alternative proposal permitting only silent prayer, correctly arguing that it would have a better chance of passage, Reagan pressured him into backing down...
...Republican-controlled Senate, the debate was for real as Majority Leader Howard Baker called up not one but two proposed amendments-the draft supported by the White House and another offered by Utah Republican Orrin Hatch-for floor action. Baker wrestled last week to blend them into a consensus proposal that would have some chance of winning the two-thirds majority needed for passage. Any amendment would also require a two-thirds vote in the House, where it has been bottled up in committee, and approval by 38 state legislatures...
Said Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah: "The House bill goes way beyond present U.S. law. I think it does not solve the problems of apartheid, but creates more problems...
...likes Don Giovanni, not even his dedicated servant Leporella. And the entire opera involves a number of characters who have an axe to grind with the infamous seducer, who nonchalantly displays his talents while the others hatch their plans. But in the end Don Giovanni meets his deserving demise, not from the living characters, but from the ghost of a man whom the protagonist killed in a fit of rage at the beginning of the story. It is not easy to play a character whom everyone hates and whose mysterious--subtly sexual--personality attracts women regardless of their social background...
Legal scholars feared that the ruling might give apparently healthy companies bottom-line reasons to use the bankruptcy law as an escape hatch from high-priced labor agreements. Indeed, when Continental Air Lines and Wilson Foods Corp. filed for bankruptcy last year, they were accused of trying to rid themselves of unwanted labor contracts. "In itself, the decision will not cause companies to file for bankruptcy," said New York University Law Professor Lawrence King, a bankruptcy expert. "But it will make bankruptcy more attractive." Bildisco President Sal Valente disagreed: "Going into Chapter 11 is debilitating. Doing it just to solve...