Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attorney General Edwin Meese III. one ofGinsburg's most ardent supporters, said heapplauded Ginsburg's statement. "As he states, hisaction, taken during his younger days, was amistake. It certainly does not affect hisqualifications to sit on the Supreme Court, and heshould be confirmed expeditiously," Meese said...
...want to go back to the Soviet Union any time in the future," Roberts said. "I want to sit back and see what happens before I ever return...
Classes need to be smaller, which would necessitate hiring more teachers. The conferences could then be longer and far more personal. The best way to inspire confidence is to have someone sit next to you and go through your papers...
...governors came to the meeting in groups of two and three as unobtrusively as possible," Whitney recalled. "The office they met in was never designed for large meetings of this sort, with the result that most of the governors were compelled to stand or to sit on tables. As the meeting progressed, panic was raging overhead on the floor . . . The feelings of those present were revealed by their habit of continually lighting cigarettes, taking a puff or two, putting them out and lighting new ones -- a practice which soon made the narrow room blue with smoke." After due deliberation, they...
...week as the Big Board reached its record bottom, on the theory that things could hardly get worse. He bought $30,000 worth of shares in high-technology firms like IBM, Microsoft and Apple, with no intention of selling at all. Said Brown: "Now I'm just going to sit on them and watch and wait." By Friday the doctor's first foray into stocks was already beginning to look prescient: on paper at least, he had made a profit...