Word: jagdish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fears that the U.S. has lost its competitive edge go hand in hand with the uneasy feeling that America's standing as the leader of the free world has slipped. "America is scared to death of not being No. 1 any longer," says a foreign banker in Japan. Jagdish Bhagwati, a professor of economics at Columbia University, talks of the "diminished-giant syndrome." A committed free trader, Bhagwati warns that the impulse of declining empires is to throw around their diluted power with such potentially self-damaging measures as trade barriers...
...itself, was what surprised most observers, especially given the quirky particulars of the case being litigated. The court was ruling on the deportation case of a student from Kenya. In 1975 the House of Representatives had used its legislative veto to reverse a Justice Department ruling that the student, Jagdish Chadha, could stay in the U.S. An appellate court overruled Congress in 1980 and the Supreme Court affirmed that decision last week...
...case was atypical, incidental to the major legal issues at stake and, for some time now, moot to him personally. But San Francisco stereo Salesman Jagdish Rai Chadha, 38, provided the unlikely focal point for last week's Supreme Court decision banishing the legislative veto and altering the balance of power in the U.S. Government. Said a stunned Chadha, after hearing the news in a 7 a.m. phone call from his victorious Washington lawyer: "It's kind of overwhelming...