Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the one-hour courtroom session, attention was fastened upon the questions posed by the pivotal Reagan-appointed Justices: Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor. Their inquiries to lawyers on both sides ranged far from the Missouri law restricting abortion to the larger question of where to draw the borders of privacy rights. Do these rights encompass abortion? If not, is contraception excluded too? As for the four Justices who regularly support Roe, only John Paul Stevens took an active part in the proceedings. Harry Blackmun, who wrote the landmark opinion, sat silently throughout...
...years old and the leader of all he surveys, yet for a moment last week George Bush looked like a schoolboy called before the principal to discuss his report card. Perched nervously on a beige sofa in Ronald Reagan's Los Angeles office, Bush held the tip of his tongue between his lips, smiling thinly as the old President blandly pronounced that the new President is "doing just fine...
Bush looked decidedly relieved when Reagan brushed aside reporters' questions about the dilution of Reagan policies on Star Wars and military aid to the Nicaraguan contras. "Well," Reagan said cautiously, "having had for eight years some of the same problems he's facing now, I'm not going to comment on that...
...Reagan's praise was faint, and the body language between the two men, as ever, betrayed discomfort. Nevertheless, Bush's advisers felt he had accomplished a major purpose of his visit: to shore up his crucial and complex relationship with his predecessor and, by extension, with Reagan's loyalists on the Republican right. As Bush jetted last week from Chicago to San Jose to Miami, pointing with pride to the accomplishments of his first 100 days, he and his aides stressed their "continuity" with Reagan and felt obliged to deny the obvious: embedded in their accomplishments are subtle but distinct...
...Crosby's vintage Holmby Hills mansion, television producer Aaron Spelling paid $10.25 million in cash. The bowling- alley-equipped, stadium-size French manor Spelling is building in its place will cost him about $30 million more. Just to the east, in Beverly Hills, a Japanese surgeon has dismantled Ronald Reagan's former bungalow, donated the pieces to charity and erected a Moroccan palace with five domes, an art gallery, ten baths and two reflecting pools. "We would have liked larger reflecting pools, like the Taj Mahal," explains general contractor David Conrad, whose desk is a marble slab that was once...