Word: rests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Originally scheduled to take place on the new North House terrace, the party was relocated to a patch of grass at the southern end of the Quad, because the terrace is under construction and off-limits to students. The rest of the lawn is still a giant mud hole and mountain...
...area of sharp scrutiny was the respect Bork would give to prior decisions with which he disagreed. Under questioning from Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, Bork tried to lay to rest fears that he would seek to overturn liberal court decisions. Said he: "A judge must give great respect to precedent." In his previous writings, he has said that the court should be careful about reversing decisions when that would disrupt large bodies of established laws and practices. The cases he usually cited involved decisions relating to interstate commerce, but last week he declared this view would apply to First Amendment...
...that is true, some of the responsibility may rest with the President. In his 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan attacked OSHA for imposing nitpicking, burdensome regulations on business. Within nine months after Reagan took office, the agency made a major policy shift. In the most dangerous industries, OSHA began to target its inspections. It stopped making surprise visits to factory floors and instead began relying on checks of the companies' own records. Only if employers' safety logs showed illness and injury rates to be above the national average in manufacturing did OSHA staffers consider wall-to-wall inspections. To lessen...
...interfere. They did, however, arrest Pushpendra Singh, the youth who lit the pyre, and four other in-laws, charging them with murder. The maximum penalty: life in prison. Authorities were investigating whether the bride's in-laws, who by tradition would have been required to care for her the rest of her life, had pressured her into the act. Kanwar's father, saying he believed that she acted under "divine orders," took consolation from the fact that his daughter had become a devi (goddess). A shrine commemorating the widow will be built at the suttee site. More than...
...satisfy the dreams of millions," he cautioned, "you can become lost in a world of fantasy." In downtown Detroit, he challenged an affluent nation: "You may choose to close in on yourselves, to enjoy the fruits of your own form of progress and to try to forget about the rest of the world. Or . . . you may choose to live up to the responsibilities that your own history and accomplishments place on your shoulders...