Word: redresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of these people are larger-than-life Jimmy Stewarts in a Frank Capra piece; rather, they are obscure citizens who felt slighted on their home patch and sought redress. As subjects, they are what crusty journalists of another age called the "little people." Forty years ago, Joseph Mitchell, the New Yorker writer, bridled at this condescension: "They are as big as you are, whoever you are." With that in mind, herewith the cases of the guitarist, Carew-Reid; the student, Cat Nguyen; and the entrepreneur, Edward Lawson...
...drugs? May American Nazis march in an Illinois suburb that is home to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust? May a man be arrested for performing a homosexual act in his own home? Is it right to promote a woman ahead of an equally qualified man in order to redress past inequities toward women...
What privacy rights apply to this vast dossier of data? When can it be searched, shared or published? And if the information it contains is outdated, injurious or just plain false, what redress does an individual have? Not much, it turns out. Ostensibly, citizens are protected from overzealous use of the Government's computer files by the Privacy Act of 1974. It requires the Government to obtain the consent of individuals if an agency collects information on them for one purpose and then uses it for another. In most cases, however, the agency merely has to publish a notice...
...first big congressional showdown should come just before the August recess when three legislative issues may be resolved: an increase in the federal debt limit, the reconciliation of the authorizing bills with the budget committee's guidelines, and the need to redress problems in the Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget law. The Democrats will be at a particular disadvantage when they begin earmarking their tax increases: proposals for excise taxes on cigarettes, liquor or gasoline are sure to outrage various constituencies. Says South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings: "I don't know how ^ we're going to get the Democrats together...
...nearly 40 years, standard military wisdom in the West has held that Warsaw Pact armies so outnumber and outgun NATO that only nuclear arms could redress the balance. This conventional forces "gap" has legitimized NATO's reliance on nuclear weapons, which in turn has allowed the alliance to hold down its spending on nonnuclear forces. Now, however, with NATO's nuclear inventory likely to shrink, fears are surfacing that decades of nuclear dependence may have left the alliance with insufficient conventional clout to keep the peace...