Word: paul
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...were Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Environmentalist Barry Commoner. And so, in another flashback to the '60s, were Actress Jane Fonda and her husband Activist Tom Hayden, this time talking of a nuclear Armageddon. Said Fonda to the cheering crowd: "We have to think of ourselves as Paul Reveres and Pauline Reveres, going through our country town by town, city by city, warning people about the dangers...
...length and depth of this slump will be largely determined by monetary policy. In the eight weeks since Paul Volcker took over as Federal Reserve chairman, businessmen's basic cost of borrowing money has jumped from 11.75% to 13.5%, the highest in history. Most board members hold that the increases will soon stop but interest rates will remain steep over the next year. Some fear that the Fed may worsen the recession by inducing a classic credit crunch, in which little money is available for borrowing to finance new plants and create jobs...
...follower of police fiction knows well, it does not always pay to call the cops. Paul N. Halvonik, 40, a California Courts of Appeal justice, and his lawyer wife Deborah, 37, apparently do not read police fiction. Returning to their home in Oakland Hills early one evening, Mrs. Halvonik found that a burglar had stolen $1,450 worth of television and video-tape equipment. She called the cops. The Oakland P.D., in the person of Patrolman Monte Beers, responded in short order. While checking out the perpetrator's point of entry, Officer Beers later reported, he spotted some long...
...Paul Halvonik, who had a respected record as an American Civil Liberties Union counsel before his judicial appointment, is a longtime friend and former aide to Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., who named him to the bench in 1978. Previously he had been California's first state public defender and a state deputy attorney general. Fellow jurists who know his work have nothing but praise for him. Says San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Harry W. Low, until recently president of the California Judges' Association: "He's got an excellent legal mind and a good sense...
...fling a cliché as well as the next fan. Dave Frost, he says, is "a premier pitcher," and Jim Barr "a wily veteran." Nixon sees a low-scoring playoff series between California and Baltimore, with the Angels winning in five games. As he told TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman: "Man for man, down the lineup, I believe the Angels can match them...