Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more taxes and in favor of well-chosen spending cuts. But, at a time of fiscal crisis and special-interest panic, Congress has simply abdicated this responsibility. By delaying, pressuring, filibustering, making deals and payoffs, our representatives have proven that attachments to their pet interests supercede national and long-term concerns. While some may argue that out of the Congressional chaos comes a budget truly representative of the whole, it is all too clear now that the lawmakers have not made the necessary sacrifices and sever will. They have an inherent ability...
...liberal observers were agreed. Like it or not, the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years had seemed to favor some erosion of Thomas Jefferson's sturdy "wall of separation between church and state." Both sides expected the trend to continue after the court scheduled new religion cases this term. But last week, as it recessed for the summer, the court confounded the prognosticators. For the third time in a month, the Justices took a tough stand against allowing government and religion...
...court's final weeks appeared to be somewhat less harried than in recent years. The total of signed opinions, 139, was down twelve from last term, suggesting that the Justices may be trimming their much-complained-of work load by the sensible expedient of deciding not to decide as many cases. The court's overall direction seemed slightly less conservative. The religion cases were the most important sign of that. Another indication was that the Reagan Administration, which last year had prevailed in 85% of the cases it entered, won only 79% this year...
...dressed casually in jeans and a sweatshirt, must have looked the part. Whatever it was that brought Edmund Perry to the park that night, it proved fatal. Witnesses, say the police, recall Jonah running home shortly after the attack occurred, shouting, "We got a D.T.!," a slang term for detective...
Serious as such incidents have been, they have not reversed the long-term trend toward symbiosis and cooperation. In a few small U.S. cities, the Mexican influence has even made Americans a minority. In Los Ebanos, Texas, 80 miles northwest of Brownsville, Postmaster Lucio Flores was asked how many of the town's 800 residents are Anglos. Flores held up one finger and said with a grin, "We call him El Gringo." What is happening along the border, says University of Arizona Anthropologist Tom Weaver, is "the Americanization of Mexico and the Mexicanization of America." It is a relatively painless...