Word: offending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials got a boost from the court in their struggle to prevent neighborhoods from declining into sleazy centers of sex-oriented bookstores and porno movie theaters. According to a 5-to-4 majority, zoning that affects only the locale for disseminating such marginal forms of free speech does not offend the First Amendment. Thus the court upheld a Detroit regulation requiring that at least 1,000 ft. separate such adult establishments. Under the ruling, city zoning authorities would be also free to concentrate smut outlets in a relatively small area, if they chose...
...that only bureaucratic self-perpetuation is keeping people involved in the utility rates issue. Some people involved probably are interested in taking over the utilities; but Burlingham implies none are because that's his bias; he doesn't want to say that anybody has an ideology that might offend the liberal consciences of the Mother Jones readership...
Confusion replaces illusion as we discover that there is in fact no white corpse in the flower-bedecked coffin. The actors deliberately offend the court, speaking of urine and filth and foul carrion odors. The Governor soon sputters "we've come to attend our own funeral rites." Throughout all this, something ominously unknown is transpiring offstage: Newport News enters and exists, relaying puzzling messages to the court and cast...
...about the future; now most of them believe that the U.S. is back on the tracks. As a result, even conservatives are voting for Ford by top-heavy majorities. Since his State of the Union address in January, Ford has not been forced to make a decision that would offend any bloc of voters-an almost incredible run of luck that Hollywood's game Gipper had no way of overcoming...
...Democratic side, Jimmy Carter won the Florida primary with the same "winner" tactics he's been using for a year now: don't say anything, don't take stands, don't offend anyone, smile. The polyester business people across Florida's midsection, centered on Disneyworld in Orlando, went for Carter because they perceived him as the candidate least likely to make changes...