Word: warrener
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Some journalists criticized NBC not so much for conducting an interview with a wanted terrorist as for agreeing to give up the most newsworthy element of the story. Warren Hoge, foreign editor of the New York Times, says that his paper was offered an Abbas interview several weeks after the ship hijacking, but turned it down. "We can't agree to an arrangement where we can't publish the single most important fact, which is (Abbas') whereabouts," says Hoge. Chicago Tribune Editor James Squires was so incensed by the NBC deal that he wrote his paper's editorial denouncing...
Simon, who served as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Nixon, and his Wesray partner Raymond Chambers have put together 20 acquisitions over the past 5 1/2 years. In the Avis deal, Simon apparently outbid none other than Warren Avis. The Avis founder sold control of his company in 1954 but recently offered to buy it back...
...years since she took her place on the high bench, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has provided a reasonably dependable third vote for the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative wing. In a number of crucial cases, however, O'Connor has begun to split from her usual allies, Chief Justice Warren Burger and William Rehnquist, and has sometimes cast the decisive vote that yields a liberal result. Says Michael McDonald, general counsel of the conservative American Legal Foundation: "I wonder if she is traveling the route blazed by Justice Blackmun." Harry Blackmun, who moved from a close identification with the Chief...
...dissent joined by William Rehnquist, Chief Justice Warren Burger complained that the majority had infringed on "a procedure which has been part of the common law for many centuries." A surprising member of the majority was Byron White, author of a 1965 court decision that last week's ruling overturned. "The time has come," said White, to take a further step to root out discrimination in jury selection...
Previous holders of the fellowship include former President Gerald Ford, former Secetary of State Dean Rusk, former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and authors John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, William Styron, John Updike '54, Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Penn Warren...