Word: panels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unsuccessful writers the postal service mostly outputs despair: rejection slips and royalty statements showing negative balances. For literature's grandees it mainly offers worldly delights: invitations to accept honorary degrees, chair a grant-giving panel or cash a nice subsidiary-rights check. The more typical professional writer, however, earns neither pity nor envy -- just a modest living, neither more perilously nor more glamorously obtained than anyone else's. For him, the postman's bag is ever a hilariously mixed...
...violated the separation-of-powers principle by providing for independent counsel to be chosen by a special three-judge court. The broad scope of special prosecutors' powers, he contended, made them "principal officers" that the Constitution says only the President may appoint. In January, a federal appeals panel that heard his case overturned...
...Party policy forum. Georgetown University Professor Madeleine Albright, who has long been advising Dukakis on foreign policy, has seen her international-affairs advisory group more than double in size. Fred Wertheimer, director of Common Cause, spins out the pre-election ploys in a bureaucrat's rendition of rap: "You panel, you travel, you visit, you appear. Most of all, you be there...
...panel will probe six actions, including Wright's pocketing of $55,000 in royalties for a book published by a printer who did $300,000 of work for the Speaker's last re-election campaign, and his use of an aide to help produce the book during office hours. Wright quickly released a 23-page refutation of the charges. He accused the 72 Republican Congressmen who demanded the inquiry of political motivations, ignoring the fact that Common Cause also had urged...
Castro may have decided to permit the ICRC inspection for good reason. Last month Cuba was elected to serve on the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and one of the panel's teams is to visit the island in August...