Word: term
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court's October-to-July year that ended last week will be best known for the race-yes, quotas-no, something-for-everybody decision that the Justices reached in Bakke. But the 1977-78 term should also be remembered for what Bakke reflects about the court itself: the notion of a conservative "Nixon court'' has by now become largely myth...
...court's tendency to grope for a middle way was clearly revealed in its criminal decisions this year. In contrast to the earlier years of the Burger Court, the Justices last term ruled more often in favor of defendants than of prosecutors. Last week the court ruled that juries must be allowed to weigh almost limitless mitigating circumstances, which may force many states to write more lenient death-penalty statutes. They also protected the accused's right to counsel and jury trial in two decisions, and in another refused to permit a "murder scene" exception to requiring search...
Carter said he was undisturbed by the talk that his style was confusing. But he admitted that there was truth to the charge. "That confused image does exist," he said. "I acknowledge it." He decided at the outset of his term, he said, that the public had to be included in the decision-making process, especially after Watergate. "These tough negotiating points have never been debated in the American environment or American society before. In the long run foreign policy is more likely to be correctly determined, we are less likely to have serious mistakes, if the public is part...
Whether Mondale's advice to Begin will be followed is far from certain. At his airport speech, for example, the Premier pointedly welcomed the Vice President to Eretz Yisrael-the land of Israel. As used by Begin, this term provocatively includes the West Bank...
...short-term pleasure, we will reap long-term pain. But if we sow short-term pain, we will reap long-term pleasure...