Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slip into your Jofa helmet and sharpen your Koho stick. Face-off time is nigh approaching. At the Forum, Roget Doucet is singing "Oh, Canada," and we can hear him. Screw the blue books, it's blue line time. The referee is an Islander fan, but any hockey esoterica is fair game...
Heralded into court by the bailiffs command, "Hear ye! Hear ye!" (Oyez! Oyez! in the Supreme Court, which prefers Old French), judges understandably take an exalted view of themselves. An Indiana judge, sued for authorizing in 1971 the sterilization of a 15-year-old girl without her knowledge, proclaimed in his plea for judicial immunity: "An aura of deism is essential for the maintenance of respect for the judicial institution." The judge's claim of something like divine right worked: last March, the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 3, that a judge could act maliciously, exceed his authority...
What? Do I hear a voice from the Union condiment table saying "This quiz will be easy, just like that Independent baseball quiz last week...
...back into the bed of his pickup. Fennesz's only complaint is the rainy weather, not be cause he minds getting wet but because rain turns dry, rustling leaves into a soundless carpet of mush. "If you don't see the deer, you can't hear them in weather like this." Chatting with one an other as they stand around in the glare of headlights and the harsh light of a gasoline lantern, most of the waiting hunters seem honest as they describe their kills. One young man, bringing in his first-ever buck, admits the kill...
...tractor for $24,000; eventually it must be replaced. The price for a new one has climbed to $32,000, even though the current model is basically the same vehicle. Says Karen, 24, who would like to have children but feels unable now to afford them: "You want to hear about inflation? I'll tell you about inflation. There's petrochemical inflation, energy inflation, machinery and steel inflation, wage inflation, and all of it comes down on the farmer. It just corks me off. It seems like we're always having to work harder and harder just...