Word: thickets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Approaching the case of Baby M the New Jersey Supreme Court might have wished for the sword of Solomon -- not to divide the child, but to cut through the Gordian thicket of paradox, bad faith and conflicting feelings that has surrounded the matter from the start. As it turned out, in a unanimous ruling last week the court sliced the issue in a way that gave important concessions to both the parents, but cut to the quick the practice of surrogacy...
...people want to put back the overgrown regulatory thicket that grew during the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S. was clearly due for a round of regulatory rollbacks, especially in light of the relatively minimal intervention that the Constitution seemed to contemplate when, for example, it authorized federal regulation of commerce "with foreign nations, and among the several States . . ." At the time, the Constitution's framers championed a free-market system with little Government interference. Says W. John Swartz, president of the Santa Fe Railway: "The Founding Fathers would be astonished at the amount of rules we operate under today. Regulators...
Economy & Business: The Government's power to regulate commerce has grown from a few words in the Constitution to tens of thousands of pages of turgid prose that cost consumers billions of dollars. The Reagan Administration has chopped back the thicket of rules, but now the trend is beginning to turn the other...
Berlin's third great architecture exhibition, the Interbau of 1957, was the high-water mark of this slightly mad, modern abstractionism, and the first such exhibition that produced a thicket of real buildings. "Planning for the City of Tomorrow" was the theme, and the results were as blandly anodyne as the motto suggests. A whole section of the city was turned into an urban- renewal proving ground, an amorphous campus where highly evolved notions of citified density were abandoned: each forgettable high-rise was an isolated Objekt plopped in sunny isolation on a lawn...
...Washington bureau, the excitement over the developing story was palpable. Staffers Brian Doyle and Neang Seng battled through a thicket of reporters and TV cameramen to stuff a pile of commission reports into knapsacks as soon as the copies were released at the White House Press Office on Thursday morning. Meanwhile, Correspondents Barrett Seaman and David Beckwith prepared to analyze the 288-page report as the Tower commission press conference unfolded. National Political Correspondent Laurence Barrett tracked Nancy Reagan's conflict with Donald Regan. Correspondents Hays Gorey and Michael Duffy scoured Congress for reactions. Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst investigated...