Word: warrens
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...Supreme Court did not agree. Contending that the presence of a chaplain to open legislative sessions is "deeply imbedded in the history and tradition of this country," Chief Justice Warren Burger held that the custom, including the use of state funds to pay the chaplain's salary, posed no threat to constitutional ideals. Wrote Burger: "To invoke Divine guidance on a public body entrusted with making the laws is not, in these circumstances, an 'establishment' of religion or a step toward establishment...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court bounced that congressional blank check. In a sweeping decision, the court declared the legislative veto to be an unconstitutional usurpation of power by Congress. Apparently any exercise of the legislative veto amounts to a new piece of legislation, said Chief Justice Warren Burger in a lucid, 39-page majority opinion; Article I of the Constitution dictates that "every Order, Resolution or Vote"-any legislative act-by Congress is subject to the President's approval. "It is obviously easier for action to be taken by one House without submission to the President," Burger wrote...
...Beatrice Foods. The company's underground storage space amounts to a staggering 23 million cu. ft., enough to keep the food to supply a meal to every man, woman and child in America, all within 26 miles of the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states. Inland President Warren Lewis whimsically calls the facility the "best little warehouse in Kansas...
...rampant "Andromeda strain." Indeed, perhaps the most severe side effect of AIDS has been the largely unwarranted hysteria that has accompanied the syndrome (see following story). In order to allay fears that AIDS is widely contagious, Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler last week visited the Warren Magnuson Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., where she shook hands with AIDS victims and sat at their bedsides. Said Heckler: "What's just as bad as the disease is the fear of the disease. The fear has become irrational." Explains Dr. James Curran, head of the AIDS task force at Atlanta...
Chief Justice Warren Burger has often complained about the overburdening of the nation's courts. They are being choked, he once observed, because "people tend to be less satisfied with one round of litigation and are demanding a second bite at the apple." The apple is now biting back. In two major decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to permit federal employees to bring damage suits against their superiors for violations of constitutional rights. In a third case, the court assessed a party for filing a frivolous appeal after repeated failures in lower courts...