Word: tinkers
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...process keeps changing. The Democratic leadership, aware for years that the post-1968 reforms were flawed, has continued to tinker. But despite a consensus that the calendar had to be made more rational, no one could control ) the "nomination window" in either party. States resentful of Iowa's and New Hampshire's clout have moved up their contests to create "front-loading," a jumble of primaries and caucuses in the first month of action. Front-loading enhances the importance of doing well in the first two major competitions. Voters in the second and third rounds, having seen little...
Three students who worked on the Spectrum brought suit, alleging a violation of their First Amendment right to free expression. They had some reason to suppose that the courts might agree. In its landmark 1969 Tinker decision, the Supreme Court held that a school acted unconstitutionally when it suspended students for wearing black armbands to class in protest against the Viet Nam War. Schools may curtail those rights, the court ruled, only when the student expression substantially disrupts schoolwork or discipline, or invades the rights of others...
Hall said he knew his superiors only as Tinker, Evers and Chance, the last names of a famous Chicago Cubs doubleplay combination early in the century...
Mathias was most effective on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he fought off efforts to tinker with the Constitution through amendments to permit school prayer, outlaw abortion and require a balanced budget. He paid for his positions when Republicans won control of the Senate in 1980: conservatives persuaded Strom Thurmond to pass up the job as chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee and take over Judiciary in order to block Mathias from the post. That maneuver stung Mathias and contributed to his lonely independence...
Addressing approximately 30 students in Government 1790, "U.S. Foreign Policy," Kalb said, "Gorbachev is making a major effort to inject reform into a stagnant system. He has begun to tinker with the system, but he will fail unless he can change the monopoly of power by the Party...