Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Energy and Commerce Committee last week disclosed patterns of sloppy operation, arrogant indifference and willful deception in the management of the country's 17 major nuclear-weapons facilities. The result of years of mismanagement plus the estimated $130 billion needed to repair the situation: "a crisis of the highest order...
...person's money for services rendered by an attorney, even if those funds are the only way that that defendant will be able to retain the attorney of his choice." Protested dissenting Justice Harry Blackmun: "It is unseemly and unjust for the Government to beggar those it prosecutes in order to disable their defense...
...million gal. of medium-heavy oil when it ran aground in the Delaware. While the spill was conspicuous, the Coast Guard's marine-safety office in Philadelphia moved quickly. Cleanup crews surrounded it with booms and began pumping the remaining oil in the ship's tanks into barges in order to limit the damage. The fast response was heartening. But the U.S. really needs a way of preventing more spills...
Another section requiring federal standards for child-care services was eased in order to allow the states to establish their own guidelines, thereby winning the endorsement of the National Governors' Association...
...excruciating saga of Pete Rose and gambling seemed to be coming to a shuddering finish last week. A common-pleas judge in Cincinnati was pondering whether to issue a temporary restraining order -- and perhaps turn the Rose investigation over to the courts -- or leave Rose to face Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and the music early this week. After four months of husky whispers, the worst charges imagined were spoken aloud at last. Giamatti's special investigator, John Dowd, asserted in court that he has found nine witnesses and enough corroborating evidence to prove that Rose committed baseball's capital...