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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rogol said 60 percent of the money will eventually be distributed for emergency needs, 40 percent to long-term projects...
...University] has been anxious to help with just about anything," Downer says. Downer says that at the beginning of each term he can give a list of courses he is considering taking and the school will move all of them to accessible classrooms...
...example: even when she agrees with the majority, she increasingly carves out her own position. She wrote eleven concurrences in the court's last term, second only to William Brennan's 14. Some of those helped establish her influence on the thinking of her fellow Justices--for example, in constitutional questions regarding religion. Thus two years ago, she joined a 5-to-4 majority upholding the constitutionality of a town-sponsored Nativity scene in Rhode Island. With reasoning that Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz calls "extremely elegant," she sought in a concurring opinion to draw a line between government actions...
With many of the most difficult cases of this term still pending, it is too soon to measure clearly how much she is setting herself apart from the other conservatives. But in the words of former Solicitor General Rex Lee, who has known O'Connor since both practiced law in Arizona, "After four or five years, many members of the court feel a greater sense of self-confidence and assert themselves more. We're seeing evidence of that...
...rarefied world of U.S. Senators, Pete Domenici, a third-term New Mexico Republican, is about as homespun as they come. While many of his smooth, well-tailored colleagues are chauffeured to the Capitol, the rumpled Domenici, 53, can sometimes be spotted commuting on Washington's metro, a loose tie draped from his neck, his furrowed brow giving him a look of perpetual worry befitting a hardworking father of eight...