Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zamir, meanwhile, was accused of trying to push the probe along by leaking details of the case to reporters. Israeli newspapers quoted a "senior judicial source" as saying that the two Palestinians were killed in a "lynching" by five Shin Bet agents on the orders of Director Avraham Shalom. Two Likud members of parliament and a dozen lawyers have filed police complaints against Zamir identifying him as the source. The former Attorney General denied any impropriety. The press reported that the three former Shin Bet officials who sparked the affair by going to Zamir with the cover-up story have...
...leader than the plodding, standoffish Burger. "The Rehnquist-Scalia duo is infinitely more dynamic than the conservative wing was with Burger at the helm," says Constitutional Scholar Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School. "I would be extremely surprised if over the next several years the effect is not to push the court to the right considerably...
...left and Rehnquist on the right. But nobody had the votes." As a result, the legacy of the Burger Court, insofar as it makes sense to speak of a Burger Court, lies mainly in the details. "It met the hard cases, decided the finer points and didn't push things along any further," says University of Texas Law Professor Scot Powe. For an era of rapid and thus often heated social change, that amounts to a respectable epitaph...
...Peace) space station, manned on March 13, is operational, while the U.S. is not yet fully committed to developing such a permanent space platform. The Soviets, long ahead of the U.S. in the lift capability of its superrockets, will soon have a new SL-W booster that can push 220,000 lbs. into orbit, about 3 1/2 times as much as the U.S. shuttle. The Soviets have, of course, one huge advantage: their authoritarian government provides long-term planning and consistently high funding for its priorities. "The Soviets worship only certain things," observes George Jeffs, president of Rockwell's North...
...numbers may be overstated or double counted or muddled, the message is really very clear," says he. "The Republican grass roots want an alternative to George Bush. Even by his own count, Bush didn't do very well for a front runner." Moreover, Durant contends, when push comes to shove, many of Robertson's followers will throw their support to Kemp. "They say they like Robertson for their minister," says Durant, "but Jack Kemp as their President...