Word: casing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Harmless Error. The Warren court imposed that "fundamental" right on the states in 1965. But last week, in the case of Alex Evans, the Burger court limited the right somewhat. Evans was charged as one of the murderers of three policemen who were found handcuffed together with multiple gunshot wounds in the backs of their heads. At Evans' trial, a Georgia prisoner testified that he had heard one of the murder defendants say: "If it hadn't been for that dirty son of a bitch Alex Evans, we wouldn't be in this now." The trial judge...
...Nursing-home care is poor. The report cites case after case in which homes were short-staffed-to a point where one home had only three people to cover an intensive-care floor of more than 50 patients. Those who are employed are often poorly trained for their jobs. As a result, many patients have waited hours for medical care. Cruelty to patients is also common, report Nader's Raiders, whose personal journals record instances in which elderly people have been abused by nursing personnel...
...Federal Reserve Board thus narrowly averted a liquidity crisis-but not without a few tense moments. Some financially embarrassed companies had trouble refinancing their commercial paper. In one case, Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend flew to Manhattan and arranged a $400 million increase in the company's line of credit from a group of banks. Many other cash-hungry companies were not so fortunate. Business failures in 1970 rose to a three-year peak of about 10,000, and the sums of money involved reached an alltime high...
...easiest way to put people back to work is to put more money into the economy. That can be done by expanding the budget deficit or increasing the money supply, or by using a combination of both. In either case the President's power is limited. He can increase the budget only if Congress agrees, and he may well run into resistance from Capitol Hill's fiscal conservatives, as well as from Democratic liberals who are not at all eager to help his re-election drive. One possibility is that Nixon will offer only token opposition to spending...
...These case histories gradually create a portrait of Victorian life-social sport, gossip, entertainment-centered on a succession of gory crimes. In the process the author dispels once again the myth that a genteel, civilized Victorian England ever existed. Its underside was a subculture of squalor, misery and brutality, all sanctioned by public apathy...