Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court's last term, second only to William Brennan's 14. Some of those helped establish her influence on the thinking of her fellow Justices--for example, in constitutional questions regarding religion. Thus two years ago, she joined a 5-to-4 majority upholding the constitutionality of a town-sponsored Nativity scene in Rhode Island. With reasoning that Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz calls "extremely elegant," she sought in a concurring opinion to draw a line between government actions that accommodate religion and those that endorse it. Her thinking was later used by Justice John Paul Stevens to help support...
...modernity being polyvinyl rather than canvas. It is a long, low tent sheltering five rings. In the mornings men and elephants erect it, and in the evenings they take it apart. The drill, for 16,000 miles and 20 states, is rise before dawn, drive to the next town, set up, perform, usually at 2 p.m. and again at 8, collapse the tent, sleep, get up, load and drive. The highest-paid acts--whole family troupes that shoulder chores across the board, from flying high to walking nags--get $2,400 a week, in cash, each Sunday, payday. The lowest...
...explained, "and then you try to do something else to earn some real money. Every circus is like that." In Judkins' case, this means driving a tractor trailer packed with anacondas, boa constrictors and pythons, as well as the odd tarantula, and sleeping in it too. At each town, he opens his establishment on the midway and charges people 75 cents to view his creatures. It is not exactly what he had in mind when he was majoring in psychology and political science, but apparently he has found what...
...Amway Grand Plaza Hotel last week, a full police escort flanked his 15-car motorcade, and the cream of Grand Rapids society turned out, checkbooks at the ready. New York Congressman Jack Kemp made a less elaborate entrance: he arrived at the Midway Motor Lodge on the outskirts of town late one night and was lmet the next morning by grass-roots Republican activists with toddlers in tow. Although the next Republican presidential nominee will not be chosen for more than two years, Bush and Kemp find themselves already engaged in a lengthy scramble for delegates in Michigan...
Last week Iturbe was picked up by French police near the town of Arbonne in the Pyrenees. His arrest, for violating an order confining him to the city of Tours, came less than a week after European Community ministers vowed closer cooperation in dealing with terrorists. In Iturbe's case, the law-and-order- minded government of French Premier Jacques Chirac is likely to fulfill that pledge by deporting the suspected terrorist to Latin America or Africa...