Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...odds are, of course, that it will still be Reagan the Kremlin deals with after Nov. 6; the Soviets presumably think so, or Gromyko would not have taken the opportunity last week to size up the President in person. Reagan's aides, however, do not expect to hear anything more of a substantive nature from Moscow until after the voting. Gromyko, they believe, will need time to confer with his colleagues in the Soviet leadership on what to do next, and the Administration will also have to do some retooling of the position to take if and when formal...
...white temple it is always quiet. No lobbyists or reporters hover about the paneled chambers; tall bronze gates seal off the cool marble passageways from the public. The black-robed Justices emerge onto the high bench only to hear the arguments of deferential lawyers, and then vanish again behind a thick velvet curtain. They deliberate in secret, insulated and remote from the hurly-burly of American politics...
Brennan will visit the Law School on November 19 to review student-written briefs and hear oral arguments in the prestigious mock trial competition. Brennan will also meet law students and professors at a reception...
Reagan will not confront Gromyko. The President is tough in policy, in speeches, on paper. Eyeball to eyeball he softens, not hardens. He listens, smiles, talks softly, encouragingly. What will Gromyko hear? How will he size up the leader of the free world? We still wonder whether Nikita Khrushchev's assessment of John Kennedy launched the Cuban missile crisis and whether Leonid Brezhnev's contempt for Jimmy Carter encouraged the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...between me, my God and the state." Michael Fitzgerald, a lawyer for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, maintains that under the current law a grand jury could haul in every cleric in Florida and ask, "What have you heard about child abuse lately and from whom did you hear it?" But Denny Abbott, a Florida crusader against child molestation, insists, "The overriding concern should be for our children, and clergymen should report these crimes...