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...concept of deregulation, or "new federalism," has been a central tenet of Republican dogma since the early 1980s. Under the Reagan Administration, spending at the local level began to take precedence over "top-down" allocation of resources from the federal level...
...could the dread strike have become such an uncertain instrument? The right of union members to strike without losing their jobs has long been a cherished tenet of the American labor movement. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 does indeed grant them that right. But while the statute prohibits employers from firing or punishing striking union members, those same employers can cite a 1938 Supreme Court decision giving them the right to hire permanent replacements for workers who are striking for such "economic reasons" as pay hikes or benefits (as opposed to unfair labor practices). In other words...
...central question is whether one person can be singled out for blame in the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The state believes so, basing its case on the tenet that a ship's captain is ultimately responsible for his vessel. Hazelwood's history of alcohol abuse has not helped his credibility. Nor has the fact that he left the bridge in the critical minutes before the accident. Hazelwood's defense is nonetheless trying, as it wades through a witness list loaded with 112 names, to persuade the jury that the captain was a scapegoat. Says Michael Chalos, a defense...
Shibboleths in the West were evaporating almost as fast as regimes in the East. It had long been a tenet of conventional wisdom that Czechoslovakia, the homeland of the Good Soldier Schweik, would be one of the last nations to join the march of freedom. Maybe, just maybe there would be another Prague Spring in 1990. But the thaw came in the fall instead. Demonstrations began in mid- November. The first was a legal assembly of students sponsored by the communist-dominated Socialist Union of Youth. But that organization was seething with discontent, and 3,000 of the marchers moved...
...morals," asserts Michael Hiller, assistant pastor at San Francisco's St. Francis Lutheran and openly homosexual. "It's an issue of justice." It is also a large and continuing problem for ordinary churchgoers, Protestants and Catholics alike, many of whom feel it would be morally wrong to undercut a tenet that Christianity has held with such confidence over so many centuries...