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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech, sponsored by the Harvard Law School Civil Liberties Union, follows the rejection of Bork's nomination by the Senate Judiciary Committee and precedes the full Senate vote, expected to occur next week...
...still not well known nationally. Only Jackson has developed a large body of committed supporters willing to overlook errors and discount or ignore unfavorable publicity. The others remain vulnerable to being blown away by the first puff of bad news, as happened to Hart and Biden, and could yet occur to Dukakis. The threat is all the greater for a related reason: without large issues to distinguish the candidates, media coverage has tended to focus on personality and character, tricky subjects for campaigns whose first blast of national publicity may be their last...
...that line is sometimes difficult to determine as law schools thrive on intellectual differences. "Disagreements over doctrine, arguments over approaches to the law and where we're going, occur and hopefully will occur in any law faculty," Friedenthal said. "A law school should be on the knife edge of debate...
...inevitability of business cycles means that a downturn of some sort is sure to occur within a few years. But economists generally believe any such slump would go no further than a difficult recession, rather than plunge into a full-blown depression. Reason: since the 1930s the U.S. has constructed a battery of economic and social safeguards. When the last crash struck, the U.S. lacked such backstops as bank-deposit insurance, unemployment compensation, food stamps, Social Security and Medicare. Says Economic Consultant Pierre Rinfret: "Could we have a crash a la 1929? The flat answer...
...talk of recession and depression, while unsettling, is probably healthy. Since the biggest crashes occur as a result of surprises, nervous discussion may produce some vitally needed preventive measures. The first priority on nearly everyone's list is to halt the U.S. Government's free- spending ways. This will no doubt bring a more modest standard of living in the short run. But it may help America avoid waking up to find frightening headlines in the morning paper a year or two from...