Word: warrens
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When SAMA was founded in 1952, its headquarters was a rabbit warren of small buildings near the old Jidda airport. Decision making rested largely with foreigners. The bank's first governor was an American, and as late as 1974, at the time of the first big surge in OPEC oil prices, SAMA was headed by a Pakistani...
...dispute first went to the Federal Communications Commission. Relying on a "reasonable access" guarantee in a 1972 statute, the FCC ordered the networks to grant Carter's request. Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for a six-man majority, backed up both the FCC and the statute, which he said "represents an effort by Congress to assure that an important resource - the air waves - will be used in the public interest...
...abroad "are causing or are likely to cause serious damage to the national security or foreign policy of the U.S." Congress gave the Executive Branch the power to oversee such matters in 1926, but Agee argued that the 1966 regulation was too sweeping. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Warren Burger disagreed, maintaining that Congress had long recognized the Executive's broad passport authority and had passed up obvious opportunities to limit...
...lose a lot of fluid out on the river without noticing it," Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of UHS, said yesterday, adding "there's also a difference between being overcome by heat on a basketball court with a lot of people around, and being overcome by heat all alone in the middle of the river." The boathouse will stay closed "until the weather breaks," athletic department spokesman Brian Gordon said yesterday...
Citizens in Weston, Conn., argue over a school budget [June 8] that allows students to choose among 27 courses in foreign and ancient languages, while Chief Justice Warren Burger urges that prison inmates be taught to "read, write and do simple arithmetic...