Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memo released yesterday by Albert M. Sacks, dean of the Law School, said that Burger had "experienced a recurrence of a serious back condition" and entered a Virginia hospital yesterday morning for treatment, where he is expected to remain for at least a week...
...gripping it so tightly is its chairman, Sen. Russell Long (D-La.). President Carter's welfare program is being chewed on--and by and large spit out--by that committee. His tax package won't even be submitted until next year because of fear of the same treatment. His proposed use of general revenue funds to bail out an ailing and tax-regressive social security system was doomed from the start, thanks in large measure to Long. As for Carter's energy proposals, Long played a major role in gutting them in the Senate. Long probably will do the same...
...brutality of the rape scene in Blind Date adds to the fuel of those who criticize Kosinski for the insensitive treatment of women in his novels. Told from Levanter's viewpoint, the rape becomes a justifiable act, the logical culmination of his lust. Elsewhere in the novel, female characters seldom rise above the status of sexual playmates to which Levanter, and presumably Kosinski, relegates them...
...lectured at medical schools, continues to drive-although she must walk with a cane-and plans to turn her columns into a book. Despite periodic bouts of gloom, her courage never flags. "I am coming put of a long siege of metastasis [spreading of the cancer] and subsequent treatment and I am tired and sometimes in pain," she wrote recently, "but I am not dying. I don't feel I am going to die for a while. When that happens, I'll share the decent parts of it with you." Hers is the kind of ungentle finale that...
...doesn't have any more information than anybody else." Most scholars insist that the Constitution's strength lies in the "majestic generalities" that permit its adaptability to changing times. "In the context of 1868, the framers were reaching out very far to require equal treatment by states as to race," says Historian Harold Hyman of Rice University. "They left definitions vague, and that's good constitution drafting: leaving details to posterity." Adds Leonard Levy of Claremont Colleges: "We can't be governed by the dead hand of the past...