Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of urgency shared by the two leaders arose from their need to gain rapid acceptance of the new Commonwealth plan for bringing undisputed majority rule to Zimbabwe Rhodesia. In a spirit close to euphoria the British government and the African "frontline" states struck a deal a week ago that offers the possibility of ending seven years of civil war in the country. But so far, at least, the participants on both sides of the Rhodesian struggle have remained as intransigent as ever...
...write off as impractical the attempts to recover left-behind oil in old wells. Natural gas, in their view, also has a dim future because proven reserves have been steadily shrinking. Even before Three Mile Island, notes the book, nuclear power was declining. Finally, mining, transportation and pollution problems rule out big increases in coal production...
...they often do, judges end up running school boards, welfare agencies, mental hospitals and prisons. Just last month, for instance, a Boston judge placed 67 public housing projects into receivership under court control because they had been mismanaged by the Boston housing authority. Such decisions often require judges to rule on specific questions like garbage removal from tenements, proper bus routes for schoolchildren and minimum hot water temperatures for prison inmates...
Something is seriously wrong if the federal bench cannot attract and hold the very best. So much is expected of it. The judiciary is supposed to be democracy's hedge on majority rule and executive highhandedness. "There is no character on earth more elevated and pure than that of a learned and upright judge. He exerts an influence like the dews of heaven falling without observation," said Daniel Webster, no doubt casting his eyes heavenward. Definitions of a good judge read like recommendations for sainthood: compassionate yet firm, at once patient and decisive, all wise and upstanding...
...says. Lopez, who proudly proclaims himself the first Mexican-American graduate of the Law School, has got a bad case of the Harvard disease. "People who are less taken in by the mystique," he says, "are those who've been here." But, of course, there are exceptions to this rule. And Hank Lopez just happens to be one who found a publisher...