Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismiss the fact that Cuba played a crucial role in Nicaragua's war is not only foolish but an insult to our intelligence. Regardless of Somoza's dictatorial regime, such intervention should not have been permitted by the OAS. When this country's back is against the wall, and we are surrounded by Communists, where will we turn...
...company may also sell one or more of its U.S. engine or transmission plants to a major importer like Volkswagen or Japan's Honda and work out a deal for Chrysler to buy back some of the production. In sum, the company will have to accept a reduced role in the auto market...
Judges share the blame for the courts' delay. In Pittsburgh, criminal judges have almost four times the caseload of those in The Bronx, but dispose of cases five times as fast. Why the difference? Because some judges take an active role in pushing a case along from the moment it is filed. They enforce strict deadlines on filing motions and papers and limit pretrial discovery; in short they stop lawyers from delaying. In other courts, judges sit back and let lawyers set the pace by handing out postponements freely...
Some judges simply cannot make up their minds. One California judge underwent psychoanalysis to get at the root of his inability to pass judgment. But a more fundamental problem is the way judges, particularly older ones, perceive their role. By training and tradition they are judges, not administrators or managers. That helps to explain why modern technology and management techniques have been almost totally ignored by the courts. "In a supermarket age we are like a merchant trying to operate a cracker barrel corner grocery store with the methods and equipment of 1900," said Burger in 1970. He spoke from...
...entirely by chance that Joe Tynan is Alda's breakthrough role: he wrote the movie himself. He is not yet a polished craftsman; the overambitious screenplay tosses out far more narrative lines than it can possibly pull back...