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...Poor Support, Ellwood outlines policy options for specific segments of the poor--the working poor with children and single mothers with families to support. And although the disabled, the elderly and people without children do not fall within the scope of the book, it is a comprehensive and analytically sound set of recommendations...
...back in second place. It is the form, and the subtlety of its myriad relationships in spaces you feel you can touch, that counts. And there are enough paintings at this level in the Guggenheim's show to convey a sense of Braque's achievement, even though its full scope is not, alas, there...
...Olson gave false testimony to Congress in 1983 in a dispute concerning the Environmental Protection Agency. Olson, supported by the Justice Department, had argued that the law violated the separation-of-powers principle by providing for independent counsel to be chosen by a special three-judge court. The broad scope of special prosecutors' powers, he contended, made them "principal officers" that the Constitution says only the President may appoint. In January, a federal appeals panel that heard his case overturned...
While details of the probe were closely guarded, its scope is undoubtedly broad. Acting with court-approved search warrants, FBI agents last week moved methodically to seize documents and computer records at 45 sites in at least twelve states. The sweep included the offices of at least five Pentagon procurement officials, 15 defense contractors and six consultants, mostly former Pentagon insiders who now work as middlemen between their former associates and firms seeking military contracts. Magistrates issued more than 200 subpoenas demanding specific records or personal appearances before federal grand juries...
...defendants. Says Arthur Stevens, Lorillard's general counsel: "We could not have had a more extreme adversary." In denying one of the tobacco industry's motions for dismissal of the case, Sarokin stated that he believed there was ample evidence of a "tobacco-industry conspiracy, vast in its scope, devious in its purpose and devastating in its results...