Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ustinov's blast from the pages of Pravda sounded the shrillest note in a Soviet propaganda campaign that has gathered unusual force. The objective: to head off the deployment in Western Europe of nuclear missiles aimed, for the first time, at the Soviet Union itself. The rest of the...
At precisely 2 p.m., the first convict was brought forward, and the show began. Since he was over 45, he was, by law, exempt from whipping. Instead, his face was painted black-considered a great humiliation in Islam-and then he was led off to prison. Dressed only in white...
Burger has played a much more visible leadership role off the bench. He likes to point out that his title is not Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, it is Chief Justice of the U.S. More than any Chief since William Howard Taft, who served 50 years ago, Burger has...
With some success: Burger-inspired innovations like federal court administrators have helped make judges measurably more productive. Burger's off-the-court duties consume as much as a third of his time. "The Chief Justice has two jobs," says Powell. "The rest of us have one." Says White: "I...
The current response to all the chug-a-lugging on campus has been a flurry of pamphlets on how to fight alcohol abuse and a parade of new college information and counseling centers. Such centers are becoming almost as familiar on campus as homecoming games and fraternity parties-the occasions...