Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burger to rally the court around him in conservative restraint, just the way his predecessor, Earl Warren, galvanized the court to judicial activism. But this year Blackmun abandoned Burger 30% of the tune, Powell 26%. Together with Justices John Paul Stevens, Potter Stewart and Byron White, they form an uncertain and searching middle core, sometimes balancing, sometimes just unpredictable...
That go-slow posture should come as no surprise. Having nibbled away at some of the broad doctrines of the Warren era, the Burger Court seems to have entered a period of cautious weighing and adjusting. Uncertain and divided on a whole range of difficult questions, the court will have plenty of opportunity for fine-line drawing in future terms...
...older brother set an example of success by going to Annapolis. But, uncertain whether he would be accepted into the Naval Academy, Miller borrowed a car, drove to Santa Fe and took the exam for the Coast Guard Academy. He passed, and at 17 found himself training aboard a Danish sailing ship out of New London, Conn. The discipline, he says, "was awfully healthy," and he began "to understand the techniques of making an organization work." Graduating in 1945, he got to Japan just after the war ended. A year later, at 20, he was given command of a landing...
...tense and alert. He has been going through a trying period during which he has been increasingly criticized as a leader who changes directions under fire, a man who allows too many policy voices and too many different signals to be heard. His laissez-faire style has left people uncertain about where the President stands. Lately he has been moving toward a more combative attitude...
...breached an international gentleman's agreement under which foreign spies are merely expelled. Last week the spy charges were not dropped, but the two Russians were released in the custody of Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin, who pledged to present them for trial-if, as seems uncertain, a trial is held...