Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would replace as much as $40 billion with its own bonds. Now there are some $225 billion in dollars in foreign central bank vaults and $500 billion more in private hands outside the U.S. For a generation the dollar's dominant currency role reflected U.S. global might; its decline mirrors America's shrunken role...
Although Chrysler is confident that Congress will approve guarantees in the $500 million-to-$700 million range, it may have trouble getting action before the legislators adjourn, probably in November, after which the company's petition might become an issue in the 1980 election campaign...
...capital, Scripps gave it a difficult mission: take on the mighty Associated Press, a cooperative owned by its client newspapers and established more than half a century earlier. By late summer U P. had miraculously captured 369 U.S. papers as clients, and it looked as if Scripps' folly might soon overtake A.P. as the nation's premier wire service...
...Francisco Bar Association: "His opinions showed a sensitivity for civil liberties and a deep knowledge of constitutional law. He was a young man with a bright future." Obviously, whatever the outcome of the case against him, Halvonik's public career may be ruined (though the publicity might not harm his future as a private advocate in California...
This time around the Halvonik case will probably wind up as a scriptwriter might have composed it. One day after his arrest, by pure coincidence, the California Supreme Court let stand a San Diego appellate court's ruling that police use of such devices as the Bushnell Spacemaster to gather evidence is unconstitutional, an Orwellian breach of a citizen's right to privacy. Thus Halvonik and his wife could be acquitted, leaving him free either to stay on the bench or to return to private practice and defend exactly the kind of case in which...