Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Additions to the story gave the impression the Newsweek intended to discredit and victimize North unfairly. The edited article went so far as to cast doubt that North was indeed the secret source two years ago.
"The impression I always sided with the President is wrong," Bork said. "My record is not one of unvarying support for the executive branch. I will give you a fair shake. I will give everybody a fair shake."
From that premise flows Bork's belief that constitutional questions should be decided on the basis of the "original intent" of the framers. Judges should avoid creating new rights or notions, like "privacy" or "fairness," that the framers did not deposit there. Yet the Founding Fathers foresaw the possibility that...
Nonetheless, they turned all their persuasive powers on Publisher Nelson Doubleday and GE Chairman John Welch, offering them hefty prices and even giving the GE boss a lecture on corporate strategy. (Says Wossner: "We told him that music was too far away from electric motors and rockets.") Then Wossner tried...
People around Neunkirchen, the Saarland coal-mining town where Erich Honecker was born 75 years ago, remember him as a serious-minded boy who passed out political newspapers after school at age ten and shunned religion class as a matter of working-class principle. "He didn't play with us...