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...same group of scientists maintains a laboratory to duplicate the sun's heat for a few millionths of a second. By studying gases' spectra on earth at these high temperatures (roughly 10,000 F.), they can interpret the sun's spectra detected by the Harvard telescope...
...Martin Lipset-who had been one the original sponsors of the convocation-asked the group to recognize that the 100 people left in the hall were not in any way representative of the Faculty. Another speaker said that "so many people have left that it would be impossible to interpret any action we take. The strategy of the convocation has stumbled to its knees...
...Supreme Court bench. His decisions have been moderate to conservative on civil rights, and occasionally liberal in cases involving the rights of criminals. But above all, Haynsworth is a strict constructionist who subscribes to Nixon's dictum that "it is the job of the courts to interpret the law, not make the law." A desire for social innovation has seldom manifested itself in his legal judgments, and he seems an apt choice to carry out what Nixon envisions as a redefinition of the Supreme Court's role, steering it away from the activism of the Earl Warren court...
From their polar positions, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. see themselves as witty, wily intellectuals magnificently equipped to interpret (respectively) the left and right of U.S. life. Except when they confront each other directly, the notion is not entirely absurd. But when they fence on television or in type, bitchiness erodes their polish and learned discourse dissolves into tantrums...
...Require Congress and every federal agency to interpret all federal laws, policies and regulations in terms of a new national goal - safeguarding and enhancing the physical environment...