Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court's flip-flop prompted dismay not only among local officials but also among some court observers who think that such an abrupt and emphatic reversal on so important an issue makes a mockery of the judicial function. "This shows the influence of personalities over the rule of law," says University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. "It tends to undermine public confidence in the stability of our justice system." Dissenter Justice Lewis Powell was similarly troubled. "Respect for the authority of this court," he wrote, is "not served by the precipitous overruling of multiple precedents...
Critics of arbitragers claim they make money for themselves but produce nothing of value for the economy. While long-term stock investments help companies grow by providing them with capital, Boesky's purchases are short- term and opportunistic. Yet he points out that arbitragers help the stock market function smoothly because they are often willing to buy a particular stock when everyone else is selling in a panic. What Boesky does has also provided him with a personal fortune estimated at more than $150 million...
...case for modern American libel law, New York Times vs. Sullivan. The dispute involved a political advertisement, critical of Alabama law enforcement and containing inconsequential errors of fact, that appeared in the Times during the black struggle for civil rights. Several officials, who were mentioned in the ad by function although not by name, sued, ostensibly to recoup their reputations. In fact, the Times' daily circulation in Alabama was then some 400 copies, out of a total circulation of 650,000, and the suits were clearly intended to discourage the national news media from covering the turmoil in the South...
...midafternoon the riders were listing seriously. All they had to do was make it back to Mamou still able to function minimally. There the girls would join them on the backs of their steeds, and they could have gumbo, and they could dance until midnight. The lesson seemed to be: get drunk, hunt chickens, eat well, kiss the dickens out of pretty girls, straighten your deportment the next day, assume your place among your fellow...
...ACSR's function as an advisory panel on proxy resolutions is largely unnecessary, as it appears to be then its work on Harvard's South Africa policy represents an area in which the Committee conducts real research and provides a valuable counseling service to the University. However, the South Africa question is very complex and fraught with emotional reactions. It is also the most enduring and important moral and political dilemma to have faced the University in recent years. Under the circumstances, it is imperative that President Bok and the Corporation take every necessary step to insure the impartiality...