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...testimony last week, however, Bork said the 14th Amendment should apply to women -- or any individual -- who might be subject to government- sanctioned discrimination that did not pass a "reasonable basis" test. But he sidestepped attempts to pin him down on what sort of discrimination might be "reasonable." Did the word cover mandatory disease testing or higher insurance rates for certain groups, based on statistical evidence? Bork cited separate toilet facilities as one example where sex discrimination was appropriate, prompting Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini, an undecided member, to retort, "Isn't that a bogus argument? We're not talking about...
...leaped from 15 ft. to 50 ft. in 13 years. Just like the man who planted it, the willow oak seems determined to be bigger and better than anything else within sight. Dwight Eisenhower's Quercus palustris is already 75 ft. tall and shows no sign of slowing down; pin oaks are devils in competition. Jimmy Carter's youngster, Acer rubrum, is a red maple that is putting on two to three feet each year...
...HAVEN--The scene: Atticus, one of those bookstore-cafes where chic people gather over cappacino and Kant. Matthew J. Reich, in his white and gray shirt, thin silver tie, and gray pin-stripe pants, looks as if he has just stepped off the pages of GQ. He blends in nicely with the wet slate-gray of the New Haven sidewalk outside...
...dumb to make up my mind before the results from the field are all in." He should not have long to wait. Last month a DC-8 and a converted U-2 spyplane began flights under and through the hole in the most intensive attempt to date to pin down a detailed model of the ozone depletion process. Preliminary results should be announced later this month...
...predominantly Army operation. The Army developed special equipment: one-man satellite- communications radios, Black Hawk helicopters modified to fly longer distances, and what one source describes as "very small, very capable, very exotic" 500MD helicopters equipped with advanced navigation and communications capabilities. But by then, the U.S. could never pin down the location of any group of hostages long enough to mount a rescue...