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...Gramm-Rudman Act violate the Constitution? Oklahoma Democratic Congressman Mike Synar raised that question hours after President Reagan signed the budget-balancing bill into law last December, in a suit joined by eleven Representatives of both parties. Last Friday a panel of three federal judges--Antonin Scalia, a staunch conservative; Norma Johnson, a liberal; and Oliver Gasch, moderately conservative--gave a unanimous answer: one key provision does breach the principle that Legislative and Executive powers be kept separate. "Therefore the automatic deficit reduction process . . . cannot be implemented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unconstitutional | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...behaved and more civic than the rest; it wants to be a real building. As for Pelli, the neomodernist turns out to be a cryptoprimitivist. His open-faced sandwich of long two-by-fours forms a kind of aboriginal latticework gate and seems Southwestern in the best sense: simple, staunch, serene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Form Follows Fantasy | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...Staunch Republican and anti-abortionist Mildred F. Jefferson said she supported a strong defense...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Race For Tip O'Neill's Congressional Seat Heats Up | 2/11/1986 | See Source »

...themes, such as religious instruction and evangelization. Prior to the opening of this synod on Nov. 25, there were ill-informed rumors that the Pope wanted the meeting to roll back some of Vatican II's reforms. The bishops' "message" was designed to allay any such fears with a staunch endorsement of the council's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At the Synod, Variety in Unity | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...case has implications for Georgetown beyond allocating poster space on campus kiosks. Barry, a staunch supporter of gay rights, has denied the university over $200 million in municipal development bonds floated to build Georgetown's student center...

Author: By Mark Sedway, | Title: Court to Rule on Gay Group Status In Georgetown Discrimination Case | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

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