Word: toed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Christmas looming, the shaken school system seemed to be lurching toward a payless payday for 50,000 employees. But at the last moment temporary help came-from Illinois Governor James Thompson and Mayor Byrne. The rescue package calls for $200 million in loans, guaranteed by the city, to give...
But just why, and how much, Chicago's schools had gone into the hole, by week's end nobody could tell. Current deficit estimates still began at Joe Hannon's original $43 million. But tallies of total indebtedness to bondholders and others ran as high as $700...
To Watergate Investigative Reporter Bob Woodward, that made the nation's highest tribunal a "sitting target." Together with Washington Post Reporter Scott Armstrong, Woodward set out to do for Chief Justice Warren Burger's Supreme Court what he and Carl Bernstein had done for Richard Nixon's...
Of the twelve Justices portrayed in the book, Burger receives the harshest verdict. He is limned as a vain and petty man who consistently tries to bend or ignore the court's rules in order to get his way. His frequent vote switching exasperates his colleagues: after one flipflop...
The court has no one who fits that description, as the authors see it. Decisions turn on the shifting votes of "the group," as Stewart calls it, the court's centrist core-Stewart, Powell, White and John Paul Stevens. Harry Blackmun is described as having to struggle to keep...