Word: soled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...danger that the inquiry would blow up in the hands of the Democrats if the nation perceived it to be a partisan vendetta against the President. Even so, Rodino was charged with partisanship himself early on, when he gaveled through decisions on party-line votes to give himself sole subpoena powers. Later, Rodino gave up that right and got strong bipartisan support for the eight subpoenas for presidential tapes, all of which Nixon refused to honor...
...such pledge this time, the Justices chose not to ask St. Clair pointblank whether Nixon would comply. St. Clair adroitly sidestepped whenever the question seemed imminent. Yet the subject became tantalizingly relevant when several Justices objected to Jaworski's charge that Nixon was setting himself up as the sole judge of the Constitution. As Justice Stewart said...
...poetry-writing lawyer from Maine, has already turned down an offer from some state Republican leaders to back him for Governor. A former mayor of Bangor, he handily won election to Congress in 1972 and was given a seat on the Judiciary Committee. This year he was the sole Republican to join committee Democrats in rejecting President Nixon's proffer of transcripts instead of tapes as final evidence. A moderate Republican with a youthful following, he has sponsored social legislation such as the nursing-home patients' bill and the newsmen's shield...
John B. Butler, Harvard director of Personnel and the sole University spokesman on the strike, said yesterday that the two sides are "making progress" in their negotiations but would not comment further...
Writing eight years ago about antitrust cases that came before the Supreme Court, Justice Potter Stewart grumbled: "The sole consistency that I can find is that . . . the Government always wins." His implication was that the high court's liberal majority, then headed by Earl Warren, would strike down any corporate merger that federal trustbusters challenged on any grounds at all. Lately, however, the court, now including four conservative judges appointed by President Nixon, among them Chief Justice Warren Burger, has been shifting to a considerably more permissive view of mergers...