Word: oakes
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...submitted for their review, and they normally select 150 to 180 on which to hear oral arguments and render written decisions. The Justices begin that process at regularly scheduled discussions. Usually just after 3 p.m. on Wednesdays or at 9:30 a.m. on Fridays, they enter a spacious, oak- paneled conference room, located behind the courtroom. Following a century- old custom, they shake hands with one another and then settle around the rectangular conference table, with the Chief at one end and the senior Associate Justice, currently William Brennan, at the other. The most junior, now Antonin Scalia, sits...
...with colleagues, Margaret Thatcher welcomed TIME London Bureau Chief Christopher Ogden and Reporter Frank Melville upstairs at No. 10 Downing Street to talk about her plans for a third term. Wearing a blue suit and her trademark double strand of pearls, she sat at a small table in an oak-paneled room. Behind her were congratulatory baskets of flowers. Excerpts from the interview...
Insurance Underwriter Joann Murphy moved to Oak Brook, Ill., 25 years ago "for the quiet and the country." But now her home in Du Page County is bracketed by office buildings and a huge shopping mall. A 31-story tower obliterates the view of trees and grass from her windows; its construction, still in progress, has sent clouds of dust and bursts of noise into her home. Laments Murphy: "This is like living in downtown Chicago...
Standout example: the village of Oak Brook does not like the glitzy 31-story office tower designed by Architect Helmut Jahn any more than Joann Murphy does. But neighboring Oakbrook Terrace gladly let a developer put it up -- right on the border between the two communities. Then Oak Brook refused to widen a road running to one side of the building, even though the developer offered to pay for the work. Its argument: Oakbrook Terrace would get all the tax advantages of the new building, so let Oakbrook Terrace widen one of its own roads and choke on the ensuing...
...Oak Harbor, Wash...