Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes is tops on NCPAC's list. Since April of 1981--when its pollsters detected some anti-Sarbanes sentiment in Maryland--NCPAC has been airing TV and radio ads reviling the first-termer as a do-nothing who loves to bus little children and fritter away tax money. Never mind that the iconoclastic Sarbanes has voted against busing legislation 29 times, or that he voted against the recent Reagan tax increases; the Senator, says NCPAC's Joe Stephen, is "a liberal in everything he does...
...they arrived home. Several found the coverage so noisome that they temporarily moved out. Two others took the opportunity to complain publicly that they had been pressured into agreeing to the verdict. Eager journalists flew one of them to New York City and Boston for TV shows. Recalls Juror Maryland Copelin: "I did just about every radio show there is. I didn't know there were so many of them...
Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland warns that "cunning will prevail"; the legislators who now vote for record deficits can always find ways to conceal future spending. And what if a recession forces expenditures on programs mandated by law (welfare, for example), above levels that Congress has authorized? Would lawsuits force the federal courts to decide what spending is or is not constitutional? Says Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "The courts would do a line-by-line review of the federal budget," a prospect sure to horrify conservatives who distrust the federal judiciary. The amendment has definite appeal...
...institutions that had evolved during the postwar prosperity. Power had become more concentrated in large corporations, labor unions and lobbying groups ranging from the Gray Panthers in the U.S. to the National Federation of Farmers' Unions in France. Explains Economist Mancur Olson of the University of Maryland: "In stable, democratic societies, special-interest groups accumulate over time, and they push to raise prices, wages or government spending. They can only serve their member by trying to win a larger slice of the social pie." In aiming to shield themselves from inflation, such groups perpetuate...
When the door to the sparse jury room slammed shut on Friday afternoon, this complex task seemed overwhelming. The psychiatrists who had testified for the prosecution and defense seemed to contradict one another totally. Said Maryland Copelin, 50, who works in a school cafeteria: "If the expert psychiatrists could not decide whether the man was sane, then how are we supposed to decide...