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...before the teachers' union acted on the proposal, the chancellor "ran out of patience and decided to knock down" the package of concessions, Fabbricante said...
Nixon: They 've got guys who'II go in and knock their heads...
...first order. A head-butting confrontation between the Supreme Court and Congress would be unavoidable. And it would be impossible for either adversary in such a conflict to come out a clear winner. It would be simple, of course, for any federal court to take the first opportunity and knock down court-stripping acts themselves as unconstitutional. Yet such an action could only result in increased resentment among certain elements of the public and probably a heightened tendency toward further vindictiveness in the Congress. If the court-stripping acts actually stuck-as hard as that is to imagine-Congress might...
Even if one accepts the Reagan point of view that we now live with a "window of vulnerability," enabling the Russians to knock out our land-based bombs, the mobile MX still adds up to a colossal mistake. Assuming the Soviet Union can destroy our 1000 Minutemen, it could eventually gain the capacity to knock out 2300 MX sites. Some estimates show that the USSR would have that ability before completion of a mobile MX system, placing the United States in the same "vulnerable" position...
...have eager ears for the first time in years." The Illinois Public Action Council, a coalition of 95 citizens' groups, has formed a political committee to elect sympathetic officeholders. Minnesota Citizens Action, a statewide consumer organization, responded to a cut in its federal funding by setting out to knock on every door in St. Paul, and many doors elsewhere, in a successful membership drive...