Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter glories in his access to movie libraries and is wallowing in classics like the Humphrey Bogart pictures. He tramps the trails of the Catoctin Mountains cataloguing the birds. He has failed to develop a passion for chocolate mousse despite exposure to such dishes at state dinners. He carefully monitors his allergies, skirting Swiss cheese, lima beans and hops (Billy has no such trouble). He works hard at being a father and insists that the presidential schedule bend around Amy's violin recitals and special school days...
...Only recently, to meet a full-flood epidemic of terrorism, has any of the three enacted tougher legislation. West Germany tightened its criminal laws to give police broader search and seizure powers. In Italy, under an emergency decree, terrorist prisoners can be held for up to 24 hours without access to legal...
...unique element that was neither advanced by the parties nor given appropriate consideration by the courts below." That "element" was the 1974 Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act, under which the GSA took custody of Nixon's presidential papers and recordings in order to preserve them for public access. By empowering the GSA to set the terms for that access, wrote Powell, Congress took the tapes decision out of the courts' hands...
...dissent, Justices Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens argued that the court had used the Presidential Recordings Act to frustrate the law's own purpose. Congress clearly intended, Marshall wrote, to ensure the American people "full access to all facts about the Watergate affair." Added Stevens: "For this court now to rely on the act as a basis for reversing the trial judge's considered judgment is ironic, to put it mildly...
...formula at prices they can't afford. Hospitals and clinics in Jamaica and elsewhere give out free samples. Mike Muller of New Scientist reported examples in the Philippines of free supplies being given to hospitals, equipment donated, entertainment provided for doctors, and clinics being furnished. Sales representatives are given access to maternity wards. Advertisements on radio, on billboards and on posters in hospitals appear throughout the developing world...