Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...openness that he hoped would invigorate Soviet society, the policy has had its high-level detractors. One of the most outspoken critics has been Yegor Ligachev, the second-ranking Communist Party leader in the Politburo, who has followed up nearly every official nod toward openness with an admonition of restraint...
...page study of its own. It criticized the White House report for its "major inaccuracies" and "omissions" regarding Bork's record. Citing scores of Bork's articles and decisions, the report defines the nominee as an "extremely conservative activist," not a "genuine apostle of judicial moderation and restraint." The battle of the briefing books continued through the weekend: the Justice Department released a 240-page rebuttal of the half- dozen anti-Bork reports produced over the past two months...
...both ends of the spectrum will be the testimony of one man. "If you are looking for a secret weapon in the upcoming confirmation hearings," says Hatch, "it is Judge Robert Bork. The longer he testifies before the Judiciary Committee, the more persuasive and reasoned his philosophy of judicial restraint will sound." Armed with an agile mind and a caustic wit, Bork is expected to be a formidable opponent for his critics on the committee. "Any Senator who decides to just jump in and portray Bork as some racist, some evil Neanderthal, is going to be in deep trouble," says...
...related theme is his advocacy of "judicial restraint," the idea that judges should defer to legislative and Executive decisions. Unless a clear constitutional right is violated, he believes, the majority through its elected officials may impose its will on the minority, even if judges consider the resulting laws to be insidious or unwise. For example, though Bork has argued that the court did not have the constitutional justification to strike down the anticontraceptive law in the Griswold case, he has spoken disparagingly of the statute itself. "Even if we assume that courts have superior capacities for dealing with matters...
Japanese style? Japan is all about aesthetic discipline and refinement: it is a tidy place where ordinary buildings are Zen compositions, where cities fit together as ingeniously as a GoBot, a place where restraint and respect for tradition (rock gardens, ikebana, interior space denominated in tatami mats) come naturally, where advertising aspires to art, where even the landscape seems well designed...