Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hastily scrawled note from Roger Sherman of Connecticut: "We need to talk." This could be the break in the deadlock that Madison was hoping for; Sherman was the last of the old-time New England bosses. But getting through the clogged aisles to the Connecticut delegation on the other side of Independence Hall was a nightmare. A live-TV crew dogged Madison's every step as Reporter Don Samuelson shouted questions: "Jim, are you going to meet with Ben Franklin? Are you releasing the big-state delegates? Are you conceding you don't have the votes? We are tracking James...
...their corner: the Federal Government. Every broadcast station in the country must abide by the fairness doctrine, a Federal Communications Commission rule that requires broadcasters to air contrasting views on controversial public issues. A station that runs an editorial opposing nuclear power, for instance, must give the pronuclear side a chance to express its views. If the station fails to do so, it risks FCC censure; at worst, it could lose its license...
...dense with artifacts, Chippendale and Copley everywhere, a colonial Williamsburg stretching from tidewater Virginia to the Long Wharf in Boston. Of course, neither life nor art was like that. To understand the culture of early republican America, one has to begin with a tiny society scattered along the eastern side of a continent no European had yet crossed, consisting of fewer than 4 million people. They were cut off from one another, from Europe and from the world, and communications over distance were so poor that the fact that the Revolution could have been organized at all was little less...
Along the Arizona border, there are about 200 maquiladora operations, the mostly U.S.-owned, light-assembly factories on the Mexican side ((ECONOMY & BUSINESS, June 1)). I have strongly supported this business in Congress as beneficial to the U.S. and Mexico because maquiladoras help U.S. companies remain competitive in today's global market, enabling them to retain jobs that might otherwise be lost to Asian competition. Maquiladoras create badly needed work for U.S. citizens in areas along the border, where unemployment is often double the national average. The economic reality is that skilled labor is cheaper in Mexico than...
...court, and never more than in the past few years. Of the 41 cases decided by a 5-to-4 vote in the term just concluded, Powell was in the majority no fewer than 33 times. Over the years his votes were steadily pro-business, and he tended to side with the conservatives in criminal-law cases. He upheld the right of states to impose the death penalty, but otherwise followed no identifiable ideological line. At his farewell press conference, he declined even to describe himself as a moderate. Said Powell: "I don't characterize myself...