Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last year TIME cited the Chief Justice's grim prediction in a cover story about "Those #@!!! Lawyers." The cover this week examines the second object of Burger's concern, His Honor's increasingly powerful colleagues on the bench. To assess the rapid expansion of judicial authority in the U.S. and the delays, anachronisms and inefficiencies that plague the nation's courts, TIME correspondents interviewed dozens of lawyers and judges across the country, including the studiously reclusive Chief Justice himself. Reports Washington Correspondent Doug Brew: "Chatting with Burger in a quiet corner of his office while...
Hanoi's sense of isolation is particularly acute now because the peace talks with China have bogged down and fears are growing that the Chinese are preparing for a second invasion that might continue longer than last winter's month-long incursion. Said Thach, speaking of Peking's leaders: "We are dealing with foolish men. Anything could happen...
...needs. This strategy will have to include sacrifices by everybody with an interest in saving the company: management, stockholders, employees, bankers and suppliers. Only such an effort can ease the Chrysler crisis. The long troubled company lost $204.6 million last year but topped that in this year's second quarter alone, when it ran $207.1 million in the red. Faced with the possibility of a shattering loss of more than $500 million for 1979, Chairman Riccardo held out the hand for $1 billion in federal...
...company specializes in making larger cars, vans and recreational vehicles. Since the gas crisis started, sales of these relics have, in lacocca's words, "been dropping like a rock." In this year's second quarter, unit sales were down 28% at Chrysler, compared with 27% at Ford and 15% at General Motors. GM and Ford, being bigger, are better able to withstand downturn. Also, they normally manufacture cars only after dealers order them; alone among the Big Three, Chrysler until recently produced autos essentially on speculation and then tried to market them to dealers. Because its dealers...
...told him I never slept much, and he said I was a natural. I marched into the building determined not to take any crap and to do well. My first day I tackled two stories, the first about a black student accusing a teacher of racism, and the second about a guy who fell off a fire escape and whose parent threatened to sue The Crimson if I wrote the story. It was my first real challenge at Harvard. I wrote both stories and nobody sued...