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...cases the Government could appeal, McCree acts as a gatekeeper for the overburdened courts. In effect, he decides which issues involving the Federal Government-from the meaning of an agency regulation to the meaning of the Constitution-need to be finally resolved and which issues can be left to simmer. Last week, for example, McCree okayed a Government appeal on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration, which is trying to establish that it has the right to investigate makers of poorly performing surgical and medical devices. He vetoed an appeal sought by the Defense Department to oppose a lower...
...secret to the surprisingly quick election of the new Pope may well be discovered in his recognized "aversion to Communism." And so, important church matters like birth control and priestly celibacy may have been set to simmer on the back burner in order to attend to a primary concern: the right of the individual to realize his potential and pursue his highest destiny free of oppression...
There are two catches. First, this unexciting prospect is a best-case vision. It would take only minor errors by the Federal Reserve, the Administration and/or Congress to produce recession, an accelerating inflation or both. Worse, even under the moderate-slowdown script, inflation will simmer down only very gradually because it has become so deeply embedded in the economy...
...more basic reason for unrepairables is the recent proliferation and sophistication of appliances, some of which have complicated solid-state circuitry. The consumer today relies on powered handy-andies to perform the gamut of erstwhile manual chores: to carve, squeeze, blend, mix, whip, grind, toast, grill, simmer, brew, stew, waffle, percolate, fry, dry, polish, drill, sharpen, sweep, vacuum, brush, iron, comb, curl, open cans, close pores and answer the phone...
...canned Budweiser as they sit on a steel-framed bed watching The Rookies on TV. Others play dominoes or listen to country music blaring from a stereo radio. In the steamy kitchen, its walls painted a drab military gray, chicken soup with dumplings, seasoned rice, beans and peas simmer on a stove and fill the barracks with on a stove and fill the barracks with what for these men are the smells of home. No one seems to mind that the windows have been hastily boarded up after local kids threw bottles through them. The weather is unseasonably mild...