Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practical matter, bargaining is essential to this system, as a means of streamlining gargantuan case loads, and as a vehicle for ensuring the swift and inexpensive administration of justice, such as it is, in appropriate cases. Any prosecutor who claims to wholly eschew plea bargaining is dismissing a lot of borderline cases, losing a lot of jury trials or seriously misstating himself...
...Sunday, the U.S. pressed hard on both. There was no dramatic turning point on the Palestinians, just "a lot of fine tuning and adjusting so all the jigsaw pieces would finally fit," said one U.S. official. Alternative proposals on language went back and forth for approval, options were accepted and rejected, but by mid-afternoon the compromise formula letting the Palestinians participate in the negotiations and have a say in the final status of Gaza and the West Bank had been adopted...
...successful summit in the Maryland mountains is not a cure for Carter's leadership problem. But surely it is a kind of achievement at the critical time needed to bring people a little closer to their President, to silence for the moment a lot of petty grievances that grew bigger than they should have THE WHITE HOUSE because of Carter's fumbling. It worked that way for John Kennedy in 1963, when after the Cuban missile crisis he successfully completed the nuclear test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union. And even Richard Nixon, never really...
...races for the House of Representatives, the 34 contested Senate seats and the 36 governorships. "Opposition to government spending is everywhere," notes Political Consultant Walter DeVries. "Voters are listening to what the candidates are saying, but I suspect they think it doesn't make a lot of difference who they elect." Voters do not care which party cuts the budget, as long as it is done...
...Anderson, president of Rockwell International, explained: "If I had a partner who put up all the money, took all the risks, did the big gest part of the work and gave me half the profits [a reference to the 48% corporate tax], I would be a hell of a lot more encouraging to that partner than I think the Government has been to business during the past 20 years...