Word: thrusted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they argue, a decision like Dred Scott flouts decades of evolving law and practice--in this case the Missouri Compromise, along with other statutes through which Congress sought to regulate slavery in the territories. The real orthodoxy and stability in law, says Blasi, is to adhere to the expanding thrust of precedent, and to respect and integrate the judgments of successive generations, rather than ascribe mythical intentions to the Founding Fathers. As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time...
Thus, the landslide victory of the Prime Minister and his Liberal Democratic Party in last week's "double" parliamentary elections was not only totally unexpected but a devastating shokku for the Japanese opposition. For Nakasone, it seemed nothing short of miraculous, as it thrust behind him, at least for the moment, the worst of his problems. Moreover, the vote set records: the extent of the Liberal Democratic victory was unprecedented in the party's 31 years of continuous rule. The L.D.P. candidates won a majority of 304 out of 512 seats in the lower house of parliament, an increase...
...change. I'm not used to having set times for everything," he says. "On the ranch we would study 12 hours a day if it rained and on other days not at all. I have to prepare myself for the structured rigid schedule that will be thrust upon...
Peter Dickinson is that rare novelist who is equally at home with the inward stare of psychological fiction and the outward thrust of political commentary. That duality is reflected in two themes that reverberate through most of his books: the impact of a family's guilty past and the doomed meeting of the industrialized and the underdeveloped worlds. Both themes merge, stunningly, in Tefuga, the story of a British journalist's trip to Africa to make a docudrama about his parents--a diplomat and his young artist wife whose well-meant meddling provoked a long-ago international incident. The journalist...
...activity that tinkers with the basics of organic life. Last week President Reagan changed that. He signed a 475-page set of guidelines laying out national policy in the biotech field that says, in essence, no new regulations are required to deal with the biotechnology explosion. Instead, the main thrust of the Administration's effort will be to cut down on costly problems of overlapping federal jurisdiction. One reform: new biotech products may now pass for inspection through two federal agencies simultaneously rather than one at a time...