Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Bork, the battle may be over, but the war goes on. The White House announced that President Reagan's controversial Supreme Court nominee would step down from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. In his resignation letter, Bork stated that he wants the time and freedom to rebut charges of right-wing zealotry that liberal lobbying groups fired at him last year during his unsuccessful Senate confirmation fight. "This was a public campaign of miseducation," wrote Bork, "to which, as a sitting federal judge, I felt I could not publicly respond...
...discovery is confirmed, it will be one of the most important in the history of astronomy. These galaxies will provide a missing evolutionary step between the big bang, when the universe began, and the mature cosmos that is observable today. Though there is no final proof yet, many astronomers find Elston's circumstantial evidence convincing. Says Patrick McCarthy, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley: "This is a very good bet. If they can prove it, it will wipe out a number of theories on the formation of large-scale structure in the universe." Declared Hyron Spinrad, another Berkeley...
...Bill of Rights isn't stamped "for adults only." The U.S. Supreme Court has said as much in the past, acknowledging that public school students do not give up their constitutional rights when they step onto school property. But the Justices have also recognized that the need for an orderly school environment sometimes imposes limits on those rights. In recent years, for example, the majority has voted to permit the search of student possessions without a warrant and has allowed school officials to suspend a student for making sexual innuendos in a speech. The Justices were in that mood again...
...also careful to warn me of the other myriad dangers that apparently make daily survival there a tenuous proposition at best. Armies of red "fire ants" gleefully attack those unlucky enough to step on their hills; their bites could (in those with the proper allergies) cause Death, according to the newspaper article she cut out on the subject. The blazing sun causes blistering skin cancer of the most painful sort in those not properly protected with sunscreen...
...only way to stabilize the drooping dollar over the long term is through fundamental economic changes, notably by reducing the federal budget deficit. Without such measures, the Fed may eventually be forced to support the dollar by putting upward pressure on U.S. interest rates. But that step presents a painful election-year dilemma for Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, particularly in the wake of October's stock crash, since any rise in interest rates might send the U.S. and world economies into a recession...