Word: names
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a decade, it is Burger's in name only...
...criminal rights. It clearly does not have the moral vision of the Warren Court, particularly in its attitude toward the havenots, but it certainly is not the conservative bastion that Nixon hoped to create. A decade after Burger became Chief Justice, the Supreme Court is the Burger Court in name only. In part, that is a reflection on Warren Burger and the way he has performed his role. In part, it lies in the peculiar nature of the institution and the complex interaction of the nine individuals who are on the bench...
Next March an unusual name will appear on the list of 17 nominees to the Chrysler Corp. board: Douglas A. Fraser, 62, president of the United Auto Workers. The nomination of this hardy adversary from Big Labor is part of the price that the automaker had to pay last week to win from the union economic concessions essential to corporate survival...
...creators and developers, the dreamers and hustlers who risk and dare. Many flop, but many others make it spectacularly Down in New Orleans, the skyline bordering on the storied French Quarter is being reshaped by a trim and handsome outsider, Joseph Canizaro The company that carries his name has just opened a 32-floor office tower, the first of many buildings in Ms Canal Place complex astride the roiling Mississippi Early in 1 980, dirt will fly for a 25-story structure and three-level retail mall next door Canizaro is a millionaire who surveys the city, which...
Readers were similarly bereft. Cross word-puzzle skills grew rusty, the spring's first cuckoo went unrecorded, and almost no one knew the name of the new captain of fives at Eton. The Times's famous letters-to-the-editor column was missed perhaps most of all. There was simply no other place to debate, as Times readers once did, how to keep one's hand warm in bed while reading (a concerned citizen's suggestion: slits in the bedclothes). Commented an Observer contributor last winter: "For those who were hooked on the Times, there...