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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Graceful and majestic, their delicate, almond-shaped leaves framed against summer skies, elms once grew thickly in the forests of the eastern U.S. and served as shade trees along thousands of Main Streets. Then, in the early 1930s, disaster struck. A load of elm logs arrived from Europe infested with a parasitic fungus. First identified in 1919 by Dutch plant pathologists, the fungus, Ceratocystis ulmi, invades the elm's vascular system, clogging it and causing death. Beginning in the Cleveland and New York City areas, then in scores of other communities across the nation, American elms died...
...complexity of the cases helps explain the splintering, however, and it is hardly unique to the Burger Court. The tremendous work load and end-of-term rush to judgment leave little time for collegiality. Nor are the divisions necessarily bad. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther: "I disagree with the assumption that the country is best off with Justices who have a simple, predictable framework. More often than not those courts have been wrong...
...three ten-year-old DC-9 jets from TWA and daubing them with rainbow colors. Uniforms for flight attendants came off the peg rather than being designer-made. No meals are served aloft, yet drinks are a bargain at $1 each. Midway's nonunionized ticket agents cheerfully help load bags or straighten up the departure lounge when necessary. But the real attraction is the fares: 30% to 50% below normal coach rates...
...three now fails. The state gives women some help in the form of child care and maternity leaves, but that is hardly enough to ease their dual burdens. One solution being advocated by an increasing number of women: part-time jobs, and plenty of them, to lighten the load and allow a little more breathing space for self-development...
...said that the people who had chartered their boats threatened their lives if they tried to leave empty. At the same time, the Cuban government threatened to levy $20,000 fines if the captains refused to pick up refugees. Then, when the ships returned to Key West with a load of refugees, the U.S. handed "intent to fine" citations to the skippers and posted Government seizure notices on the vessels. Protested one mate on a shrimp boat: "This man Carter tells us we can go over there and then tells us we can't. I wish to hell...