Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though long trials can produce too much information for a rational truth-seeking process, few experts see any solution. Judges can try to limit the lawyers, but Frank Raichle, a leading New York State litigator, points out that "all kinds of questions come up during a trial -the suppression of evidence, improper evidence before the jury, constitutional rights. The issues get beclouded by all these other things. But fairness and justice shouldn't be sacrificed on the altar of speed." Frank Cox, who has been defending one of the San Quentin Six, has had little time or energy...
...drug spokesman put it, "even if we vaccinated the whole population with tap water." Worried about defending against many frivolous suits, insurance companies have refused to provide coverage for the manufacturers. So has Congress, although at week's end some compromise was being sought-perhaps legislation that would limit damages anyone could collect from drug companies...
...tastes are celebrated in a vast show (609 items), that runs through the summer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The aim of "The Eye of Thomas Jefferson" is to sketch the cultural environments through which Jefferson moved. This is a pharaonic enterprise: pushed to its limit, the subject of such an exhibit might be nothing less than the whole of aristocratic and high bourgeois culture in Georgian England, America and France. Of course, no show could encompass (or even adequately sample) ah" that; so what there is, in essence, is a glamorous but uneven struggle...
...voted 5 to 4 to strike down federal regulations that applied minimum wage and overtime rules to state and local government employees. Dissenters called the ruling a "catastrophic judicial-body blow at Congress's power under the commerce clause" of the Constitution. But the majority, in deciding to limit that power for the first time in nearly 40 years, thought that if the federal rules prevailed "there would be little left of the states' separate and independent existence...
...least for the underground routes. If you are in the back of a Green Line car when its old rusty wheels make their hairpin turn from Park St. into Boylston station, hold your ears--the pain is excruciating, especially if your driver decides to break the six mph speed limit...