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...back two of the most critical and criticized features of U.S. criminal law: the so-called exclusionary rule and habeas corpus petitions. With decisions in Powell and Rice expected by June, the following stories analyze why the rulings may be significant tests of how far the Burger Court will trim the Warren era's expansion of the rights of suspected criminals...
...management team is making its weight felt in other ways. Domestically, Chrysler slashed inventories by $384 million last year, and has cut total bank debt by nearly $300 million. The company now finds itself in running trim, confident that it can recapture its share of the auto market, which slipped from...
...work laws, the death penalty and preventive detention, and opposed federal aid to New York City. His right-wing approach to international affairs is vividly reflected in his selection of Dean Rusk as his foreign policy advisor. The central theme of Carter's campaign has been the need to trim federal bureaucracy, specifically welfare bureaucracy; such language masks a more fundamental desire to realign governmental priorities and to eliminate the social welfare programs of the 60's. The brunt of this new austerity will of course be borne by poor and working people. "I think you will find," Carter...
...prove that we did not exist. We were treated like lepers. We lost our identity. It was like looking into a mirror and not finding your reflection. In Russia," he said with characteristically vivid imagery, "if one blade of grass grows higher than another, they send in bulldozers to trim it down...
Blessed with a strong, trim build (she is 5 ft. 3 in., 115 lbs.), Dorothy has total body control, one reason she can land a jump so softly. That same sure strength allows her to perform skating's more difficult maneuvers gracefully. Like Mikhail Baryshnikov, the ballet dancer whom she idolizes, Dorothy never shows preparation for a leap. She seems to hang nonchalantly in flight. Her most beautiful move is a delayed Axel in which she hangs suspended before completing 1½ revolutions in the air. Skating fanciers also admire Dorothy's spins: high-speed yet delicate rotations...