Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dissent from the decision of the majority was angry, even bitter. Justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote the landmark 1973 decision, assailed the ruling as "disingenuous and alarming, almost reminiscent of 'Let them eat cake.'" Departing from Chief Justice Warren Burger, his "Minnesota twin," Blackmun roundly scolded his colleagues: "There is another world 'out there,' the existence of which the court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow." Justice Thurgood Marshall charged that the court's decision would "brutally coerce poor women...
...last week a pleasant young man with a neatly trimmed brown beard approached the twin 110-story towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. He was wearing heavy hiking boots, and on his back was a burnt-orange pack containing a long coil of bright blue nylon rope. A curious window washer asked the stranger what he was planning to do. "I'm taking a walk," he said casually. And then he proceeded to: straight...
Economic topics-including uses and controls of nuclear energy-dominated much of the summit, although human rights and other political issues were also discussed. There was agreement that the global economic recovery has not been proceeding quickly enough and that unemployment and inflation remain twin dangers (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Each leader recited his country's growth-rate target for 1977 and pledged to do what was needed to meet it. The leaders also agreed that: 1) protectionism poses dangers to international trade; 2) the International Monetary Fund should be supported in its efforts to reduce imbalances in international payments...
...Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Husband Mick and 150 or so other of Bianca Jogger's friends and loved ones. The occasion was her birthday (27 by her count, 32 by others), and Manhattan's Studio 54 discotheque was festooned with balloons and ballasted with artificial snow. A twin-towered, castle-shaped cake awaited Bianca, who pranced around on a white stallion. Said she: "It was the most marvelous party I have ever...
...positions on a military map, with radii small enough so that no student would have to trudge more than an "acceptable" distance to breakfast. Spence in turn presented her "spheres of proximity" to Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, who picked a House form each group, with the twin goals of saving money and "minimizing the re-location of breakfast staffs," Spence said last week...