Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THREE YEARS BACK, or was it four, Bruce Springsteen was seen in Boston by rock critic Jon Landau, who pronounced the now-famous judgment on him: I have seen the future of rock and roll and its name is Bruce Springsteen." That was a pretty tall order for a raggedy-looking dude from Asbury Park, N. J. to fill. That and Time Magazine's talk of him as the new Bob Dylan put a great deal of pressure on Springsteen to produce a suitable follow-up for his smash 1975 album, Born...
Carter's Executive order also speeds up the declassification of documents. Most now will become available to the public in six years, instead of up to ten years...
...painless reminders of the way we were before women's lib, the sexual revolution, Viet Nam and Watergate. But Kerr's later work is disquieting because it goes on as if none of these things had happened. A little malice, at least, now seems to be the order...
Once on the court, however, he wrote a ringing decision striking down Nixon's claim that the Government did not need a court order to bug suspected domestic security risks. Similarly, Powell once approvingly told the American Bar Association that the Supreme Court seemed to be moving away from usurping the authority of the Legislative Branch. But on the bench, he voted with the majority in a decision that not only legalized abortions but set forth unusually detailed guidelines on them...
...position as the point man in what lawyers already are calling the "4-1-4" Bakke decision illustrates his propensity toward thoughtful moderation. "The key problem is one of balance," Powell once said, referring to the conflict between the rights of suspects and the need for law-and-order. Says J. Harvie Wilkinson, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who once clerked for Powell: "By temperament, he tries to find common ground among varying points of view." Powell hates to be categorized as liberal or conservative. Says he: "Not one of us is a prisoner of blind...