Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Year of Education in West Virginia. Some year. Last week 67,000 state college and university students, as well as 8,300 faculty and other employees, learned that most spring classes would be cut by a week and one college summer semester would be dropped. Reason: a Moore order, prompted by an economic slump, for 20% cuts in state-agency expenditures. Asked Ray Bauer, 21, president of the West Virginia University student body: "Are we supposed to put our lives on hold while these clowns figure out what to do?" Apparently not. After two days of public outrage, an abashed...
...adds, "you miss the music." The most withering attack was mounted in a 1977 Commonweal article by John T. Noonan, then a University of California law professor and now a federal judge. He declared that American Catholics are "being impoverished" and demanded that the bishops ban the version and order up another...
...using more dignified language and following the word order in the Greek manuscripts more closely, the NAB comes out sounding rather close to the Revised Standard Version. Since the RSV is available in an approved Catholic edition, why not, in the spirit of ecumenism, simply adopt that Protestant- produced version? Responds Gignac: "That would be nice, but we think ours is slightly better...
...issue that the Supreme Court will decide is a narrow one, whether to grant him a stay in order to consider his third petition to that court. But controversy has crystallized around the larger question -- as much ethical as legal -- of whether the U.S. is wrong to use Soviet-supplied evidence in its pursuit of Linnas and other accused Nazi war criminals. The honorable sheriff in the westerns, after all, protected even the most despicable criminal from the savage mob. In short, in its zeal to see a Nazi atrocity punished, is the U.S. guilty of trimming its standards...
Last February a Texas appeals court reduced the penalty against Texaco -- but only to $8.5 billion. By that time the addition of 15 months' worth of interest and court costs to the $8.5 billion meant that Texaco still owed $10.2 billion. Under a court order, Texaco has been paying $2.5 million a day, $104,000 an hour, $1,736 a minute into an escrow account to cover interest on the judgment...