Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...porn lines in an amendment to the $8.3 billion education bill. The measure would simply outlaw any "obscene" telephone services. Although some legislators expressed doubt about the bill's constitutionality, California Republican William Dannemeyer, a co-sponsor of the amendment, declared, "People want it banned. Let the Supreme Court rule on constitutionality...
Jackson likes to talk in rhyme and think in metaphor; Dukakis is as poetic as a slide rule. Jackson, the college quarterback, is a scrambler, an improviser, a mixer; Dukakis, the college runner, is essentially a loner who learned the Greek monos mou (by myself) as his first words. Jackson sweats, gestures, emotes, preaches when giving a speech. Dukakis uses a terminal monotone and metronomic motions. Where Dukakis is cerebral and calculating, Jackson is visceral and physical. During a joint appearance in New York, as Jackson succeeded Dukakis at the lectern, the Governor shook hands as they passed. That...
...Supreme Court is sometimes asked to play God. Last week it turned down the chance to play doctor. In a closely watched case, the Justices declined to decide whether alcoholism is a disease. But they did rule 4 to 3 that the Veterans Administration is not required to view it as one. Two recovered alcoholics sued the VA when it refused to extend the period in which they were entitled to education benefits. Usually veterans receive such benefits only within ten years of leaving the service. The plaintiffs claimed that their drinking qualified them for a special extension offered...
When the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya published a letter six weeks ago defending Stalin's rule and suggesting that glasnost was leading to "ideological mishmash," suspicion immediately fell on Ligachev as the instigator, if not the author. (The letter was ostensibly written by a Leningrad chemistry teacher...
...rule change would apply for courses beginning next year and would not affect current spring courses...