Word: protractedness
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Two articles published a year ago helped prod the organization to a new fiscal openness. Corporate Report, a Midwest business magazine, said that because of inadequate financial data, the Minnesota Commerce Department was looking into a B.G.E.A. gift-annuity plan, which supporters bequeath money to, and draw interest income from...
The economists agree that Proposition 13 will weaken local governments by increasing their dependence on state and federal funds. Warns Nathan: "As the state government becomes a more important source of revenue, more politics will be introduced into the allocation of funds." Still, argues Weidenbaum, "it was a ridiculous situation...
Your article on lawyers [April 10] distorts a speech I made 20 years ago. It was not made, as you assert, "before an appreciative audience of Stanford law students." It was delivered at a seminar on protracted cases for U.S. judges. My speech contrasted judicial control with noncontrol of the...
My point was that if the judges controlled more closely the progress of the litigation, it would put an end to protracted delay. I compared the 14 years it took me to try the Famous Players Lasky Corporation case, where there was no judicial control, with the three-year period...
This week the Administration is attempting to move beyond words to concrete action. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance flies off to Africa for a series of meetings with parties directly involved in the unsolved Rhodesian crisis. His basic goal: to convince the Presidents of the so-called front-line states...