Word: interpretative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...religious community sees the Moon case as a strong indication that the government plans to interpret those 16 words as narrowly as possible, allowing churches free exercise only if they meet government standards. Harvey G. Cox Jr., Harvard's Thomas Professor of Divinity, voices a common concern when he notes the implications of the IRS having a say in how religions disburse their funds: "One can imagine in a future generation a politicized IRS deciding that the Catholic Church shouldn't speak out against nuclear war. Or anything else--there's no limit...
...twelve unfilled appointments with which to close the gap. Some appeals courts are completely out of sync with the top court. The Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, for example, had 27 cases reviewed by the Supreme Court and only one affirmed. Moreover, some state supreme courts have begun to interpret their own constitutions more liberally than the U.S. Supreme Court does the federal Constitution. For instance, in 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court found no federal constitutional requirement for equal funding of school districts within a state. But the same year, the New Jersey Supreme Court interpreted its state constistution...
...Supreme Court was last a major election issue when Richard Nixon campaigned against the activist Warren Court in 1968, vowing to appoint Justices who would "interpret the Constitution strictly." Within three years, Nixon had four openings to fill, including that of Chief Justice (Warren stepped down at age 77 in 1969). Pundits proclaimed a "Nixon Court" under Burger, the new Chief Justice, and waited for a veer to the right...
...awesome success of his medieval-monastery mystery, The Name of the Rose, has turned the scholarly Italian professor of semiotics into an international literary icon. During an autumn promotional tour of the U.S. last week, he delighted an audience of New York City fans, but deftly declined to interpret the meaning of his work. Eco did talk about the pressures of fame and fortune. "I used to think that financial success would enable me to pursue my interests more," explained Eco. "The exact opposite has happened. It's quite a paradox...
...When he sits down in front of the fireplace, in one of the Martha Washington chairs, to the President's left, Gromyko will find he is quite an attraction. At least six of the President's top men will be clustered around to weigh every word and interpret every gesture for some glint of the future relations between the superpowers...