Word: respectfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scattered in various corners of the room obviously due to some relatively energetic lovemaking--and then become profoundly embarassed when her ertswhile sexual partner stumbles to the door in his pjs and offers to drive her home. "Oh, no, that's okay," she tries to stutter with some self-respect, "I can get home by myself. Well, bye." This will certainly never go down as one of the great love story good byes...
...years he was a member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, on which he eventually became ranking Republican. While serving as finance chairman of Vice President George Bush's 1980 presidential campaign, Conable cemented his friendship with Treasury Secretary Baker, then Bush's campaign manager. The respect that Conable commands on Capitol Hill may come in handy this fall, when, in line with the aims of the Baker Plan, the Administration could ask Congress for additional funds for World Bank-related lending...
...asked. "I don't consider 21-in-the-world, or whatever, to be a failure." When Lloyd was ranked 24th, he married the top-rated woman player, Evert. Before long, like Claude Rains or Mr. Thatcher, he began to disappear (to 331st). After Evert spoke publicly of losing respect for her vanishing husband, Lloyd fought his way back into the 30s and even to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open. But his passion was not for winning. "If I wanted it more, maybe I would have gone higher. Maybe I didn't have the champion's mentality of sacrificing everything...
Rehnquist holds himself out as an apostle of judicial restraint. Federal judges, he asserts, should not impose their personal views on the law or stray beyond the intent of the framers by reading broad meaning into the Constitution. Yet judicial restraint has another meaning: judges are also supposed to respect stare decisis, the established precedent handed down by past judges. Rehnquist has been less respectful of Supreme Court precedent, especially the decisions of the liberal Warren Court. His critics sometimes accuse him of disingenuously twisting history to fit his own views. "Don't forget, Rehnquist is a radical," says Columbia...
...Burger Court will be remembered, if it's remembered at all, as a moderate court, neither retrenching nor avant-garde," says Duke University Law Professor William Van Alstyne. Its prudence derived from the respect it, like previous courts, accorded to the precedents set by predecessors. Thus the Warren rulings became the basis upon which the Burger Court built its reasonings. It left standing the chief emblem of the Warren era's expansion of defendants' rights, the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights before interrogation. But it allowed police to dispense with Miranda warnings in emergency...