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...nomination to the Supreme Court, Specter was considered one of three undecided Senators on the 14-member panel. During a tough, often dazzling interrogation of the nominee, he seemed to be leaning away from Bork. But last week, after the Senator grilled pro- and anti-Bork witnesses with equal vigor, the judge's supporters felt Specter was inclining their way. Specter was characteristically cryptic. Although he challenged Bork's shifting positions on civil rights and women's issues, he told conservative Economist Thomas Sowell that the judge's more recent moderate statements "may well warrant confirmation. I'm not saying...
...scope of Gorbachev's reforms and the vigor with which they are being pursued indicate that they are not merely a Potemkin village of minor improvements designed for foreign consumption. Standing before the Central Committee last month, Gorbachev irrevocably put his political future on the line in favor of principles that sound like those the West has always championed: economic freedom, individual rights and private initiative...
...first Gorbachev seemed new and interesting because of his vigor. That alone distinguished him from his doddering predecessors, whose artificial life-support systems and terminal "colds" were gruesome metaphors for the decrepitude of the system. At last the Soviet Union had a leader who was younger than the state itself...
Harvard officials link these boosts to public anxiety about American economic competitiveness and renewed vigor by the higher education community in protecting its interests on Capitol Hill...
...court's decision was warmly greeted by the law enforcement officials who have used the new law with vigor, typically against accused mobsters and drug dealers who often have the money to meet high bail. Thirty-four states also permit the threat posed by the defendant to figure in some bail decisions. On the federal level, there has been about a 36% increase in pretrial detainees since the act was passed, from a daily average of 5,383 in 1984 to 7,328 last year, or about one-seventh of those in federal lockup. "It puts a burden...