Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year's graven edict of the majority may turn up next year as a dissent. Observes Georgetown Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "The bar and the public are left without the ability to predict what the court will do even in similar circumstances. You don't know where you stand with this court...
...served one year as co-chairman of the powerful Cook County Democratic Central Committee. She is a scrappy reformer who is out to rechannel the Democratic machine's energies into delivering services for Chicago's neglected neighborhoods, especially for the blacks and latinos who supported her. Her tough stand in suspending city supervisors who fail to show up for work has pleased taxpayers and set the city bureaucracy on nervous edge. Yet her use of patronage powers in appointing people of unquestioned loyalty?while firing holdovers from the previous administration?has made her the target of criticism. Says Byrne...
...doubt. But during his bloody last stand against the Sandinistas' "final offensive," more than 15,000 people died. Another 600,000-roughly a fourth of the country's population-had been driven from their homes by Somoza's desperate, ultimately unsuccessful counteroffensive to save a regime that most Nicaraguans had learned to loathe...
...exotic, others as familiar as moonshine stills and windjammer sailing ships-are beginning to come on stream to conserve fuel and produce energy for the 1980s from unconventional sources. Clever inventors and canny investors see prospects of becoming instant energy millionaires. Long stagnant industries such as coal and steel stand to recover and prosper. Resource-rich regions can expect to surge as new plants and mines start up and create jobs...
...regions that stand to benefit most are coal-heavy Appalachia and the Rocky Mountain states, site of most of the nation's oil shale and some of its most promising new sources of coal and oil. The U.S. Gulf Coast may also be awash with dollars, as drilling companies search for hard-to-get methane gas in deep rock strata. In grain-growing Iowa, Kansas and other farm-belt states, some 1,000 service stations are selling gasohol, made from gasoline with a 10% lacing of grain alcohol, and Carter's program would enable production to jump. Says...