Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal regulations accord them that right. At each airport the Federal Aviation Administration's tower chief has the responsibility for closing specific runways or the entire field. Controllers are required to advise pilots of adverse conditions but cannot order them to seek another airfield. The Kennedy crash makes plain the need for clearer standards for determining when wind shear presents grave dangers, as well as tougher guidelines on what course to take when it does...
Which is fitting, because Gene Hackman paces through this film like a rush hour shadow, mustached and anonymous, sitting in his car playing magnetic chess, inconspicuous in a plain coat and tie. Hackman works wonders with a part like this: when he isn't cast as the big blustering shove-around of Popeye Doyle or Scarecrow, or squandered in a mistake like The Poseidon Adventure, he's our best interpreter of the middle-class presence: not the hero, or the anti-hero, but the unhero, making his own blind...
Brushing aside the Fairfax County bar's contention that its price list was merely advisory, Chief Justice Warren Burger found that "the fee schedule was enforced through the prospect of professional discipline from the state bar. [A] naked agreement was clearly shown, and the effect on prices is plain." Such naked agreements were long common in bar associations; 34 states once had some kind of minimum fee schedule covering legal services. But in recent years the number has dropped to 18, as lawyers began to worry that they might indeed be subject to antitrust laws. The traditional theory...
...more philosophical moments, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has pondered his new boss in the international setting. He fits him into the company-if not yet, of course, the stature-of Harry Truman and Pope John, men elevated to power because they were perceived to be plain, calm and safe...
...quixotic tilts at their bureaucracy increasingly nettlesome. Federal authorities recently issued a starchy departmental memo instructing that Casley must not be addressed by his title. "The Australian government does not recognize the existence of Hutt River province," says the Prime Minister's office. To Canberra, Prince Leonard remains plain Mr. Casley of Lockhart Street, Como, Western Australia...