Word: sways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, his beliefs are on the ugly side of right-wing. Yes, conservative "natural law" is worse than Marshall's or William J. Brennan's own liberal "natural law." But this has predictably done nothing to sway fence-sitting Senate Judiciary Committee members, who are eager to avoid the bloody political battle such rationales for rejection would spark, and who are wary of voting against a Black anyway. (Especially those Southern Democrats so crucial in flaying Bork's high court prospects...
...Story is even bigger than it seems. The old order failed in the Soviet Union, and in Eastern Europe two years ago, for reasons that apply everywhere Marxism-Leninism still holds sway. What that system does best is protect the power and privileges of its elite. The means to that end are terror and bureaucracy. The result is chronic inefficiency, an unhappy, unproductive citizenry, and a country severely hobbled as it tries to participate, to say nothing of compete, in the life of the planet. Therefore, despite their internationalist pretensions, Marxist states end up with fortress economies under self-imposed...
...weekly, with bodies stacking up in a building occupied mostly by blacks, but the cops are too busy riding shotgun on the black community to pay any attention." Black and gay leaders have called for an independent investigation of the department, claiming that it is still philosophically under the sway of Harold Breier, who retired as police chief in 1984 after a rigid 20-year reign. Meanwhile, Chief Arreola was facing sharp criticism from within his ranks after suspending the three officers involved in the May 27 incident and ordering an internal investigation...
...conservative sway is by no means absolute; the liberal wing can still claim an occasional victory. Last week the Justices ruled 6 to 3 that the 1965 Voting Rights Act applied to the election of state and local judges. That gives blacks and other minorities an opportunity to bring lawsuits to change voting methods in the 41 states where some judges are chosen by ballot. In an important victory for women's rights, the court ruled unanimously in March to disallow so-called fetal-protection policies that bar fertile women from jobs that might pose dangers to an unborn child...
...Weather Service get into such a mess? Part of the problem is bureaucratic: the NWS falls under the sway of the Commerce Department, which has never shown much understanding of or interest in the science or technology of weather prediction. Pinched by tight budgets and layoffs over the past decade, the agency was very nearly shut down under the Reagan Administration, which in its zeal to privatize government operations briefly proposed selling off the Weather Service's satellite network to the highest bidder. Public outcry forced the White House to scrap its plans...