Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mistake or impropriety can be more serious in some instances than the impropriety itself." Just how seriously Carter's effectiveness has been damaged is less clear. A Harris survey released last week showed Carter's public approval rating had fallen from 59% in July to 52% in late August (at the same period in their presidencies, Gerald Ford had an approval rating of only 39%, and Richard Nixon 65%). Only a third of those questioned approved his handling of the Lance problem...
Abzug and Beame had led all the opinion polls from Christmas right up through late August. But Beame's fatal burden was his poor record as a fiscal manager; although he claimed he had "made the tough decisions" that saved the city from bankruptcy, his chances for political survival were dashed last month when the Securities and Exchange Commission published a staff report damning his performance as deceptive and inept...
...they presumably conform to a generic profile of the contemporary terrorists put together by the computers of the Federal Criminal Office. Almost all the known disciples of Andreas Baader are well-educated products of respectable-sometimes prominent-middle-and upper-middle-class homes. Unlike the student radicals of the late '60s who lashed out against "capitalist exploitation," imperialism and the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, today's German terrorists seem strikingly apolitical. In the coffeehouses of university towns, they are called Spontis-for spontaneous radicals who do not bother with ideology but simply want to destroy the present...
Most of these radical attorneys attended law school in the late '60s and were deeply influenced by the radical student movement of the time. In their forensic strategies, they have clearly taken cues from the U.S.'s William Kunstler and other defense counsel who gained prominence during the widely publicized trials of American radicals like the Chicago Seven. The German lawyers have mastered the art of disrupting cases with obfuscating rhetoric, demands for evidence that is impossible to secure, requests for delays. Lacking any provision for contempt of court, German judges have generally been powerless to control these...
...theme that's supposed to tie the daily experiences together. Is it the legal system as it sustains class society and the state? Is it Harvard Law School as it breeds privilege and promotes inequality? Just what enemy prompted Turow, who apparently considers himself a left-winger from the late '60s, to enroll...