Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's sophisticated, aristocratic, Oxford-educated Prime Minister, Kukrit Pramoj, 64. The author of 36 fiction and nonfiction books and for 22 years an acerbic, nationally known newspaper columnist, Kukrit led an incredibly complex 17-party coalition government until January, when a controversy regarding the price of rice forced him to dissolve Parliament. During the ten months he was in power, he concentrated on building up the long-neglected countryside by increasing rice and sugar price supports, requiring banks to invest in local agrarian projects and pumping $300 million in direct grants into rural subdistricts. Looking toward the elections...
...this year 6.8." One member remarked that applications are rising in schools involved in environmental issues. Another expressed the opinion that schools which teach architecture only are better in terms of professional training. (The Chairman asked that comparative statistics on rates of application to other schools, such as Rice, Minnesota, Washington [Seattle], and Washington University-St. Louis, be included in the Visiting Committee's Report. He asked also that the Committee consider in its Report the opinions of leading academics and others in design-related fields about the future direction of architecture...
...Burger Court-with its moderate-to-conservative majority now strengthened by John Paul Stevens-is considering whether to cut back two of the most critical and criticized features of U.S. criminal law: the so-called exclusionary rule and habeas corpus petitions. With decisions in Powell and Rice expected by June, the following stories analyze why the rulings may be significant tests of how far the Burger Court will trim the Warren era's expansion of the rights of suspected criminals...
...federal courts to check over every constitutional claim, even if it had been fully litigated in state proceedings. "The writ wasn't supposed to be an appeal, but it has basically become another level of appellate review," says Columbia's Uviller. Prisoners like Lloyd Powell and David Rice began raining petitions on federal courts. The total last year neared 10,000; 15 years ago, there were just...
...state court. Complains Northwestern Law Professor Fred Inbau: "The right of one federal judge to overrule five or seven state supreme court justices is just nonsensical. We have to call a halt to it." At last week's arguments before the Supreme Court, one lawyer for Convict Rice tried to counter that view; he argued that the "state courts' primary allegiance is to guarantee enforcement of the state's criminal law, while the federal courts' is to preserve constitutional guarantees." Justice Potter Stewart disagreed sharply: "That may have been true in some areas of the country...