Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of observers complained about the three-member panel of newsmen who questioned the candidates. Said Tom Williams, president of a San Francisco executive search firm: "I thought the reporters were somewhat biased in their questions, favoring Carter. The questions to Ford seemed much tougher." Los Angeles Political Consultant Joe Cerrell, a Democrat, agreed. He feared that viewer sympathies would go to Ford as a result...
Every criminal defendant who faces the possibility of going to prison is entitled to a lawyer, the Supreme Court ruled in 1972. But how good must the lawyer be? Last week a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia endorsed a set of standards that lawyers must meet. It then added the startling requirement that whenever a defendant shows that his lawyer was seriously inadequate, the federal prosecutor bears the burden of proving "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the lawyer's action did no harm to his client's chances...
...students' hearing on the university charges is scheduled to come before a faculty, administration and student panel on Monday, November...
Those are the chief conclusions of the second TIME Citizens' Panel conducted by the public-opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. Last month TIME published the results of the first survey, taken among 300 voters chosen at random from a national cross section of 1,500 people. To examine the changing-or unchanging -reactions to the campaign, Yankelovich went to 303 other voters between Oct. 8 and 10, after the second debate...
VIEWS ON CARTER. The second debate notwithstanding, only 1 out of 5 panelists thought Carter's capacity to handle foreign affairs was a strength. Many Carter supporters on the panel -as well as some Ford backers-mentioned Carter's closeness to the common man as one of his chief virtues. Said Maria Huilera, a teacher from San Antonio: "He's working for the working people. He's not for big business." Others cited his newness, his fresh ideas and his desire to reduce unemployment...