Word: showdown
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...stand out in the field and think about a movie he'd seen," recalls Pirate Manager Danny Murtaugh. Going into last weekend, the former woolgathering champ was hitting .325, second best in the league. With the Phillies fading fast, the Pirates and Cardinals are headed for a showdown series next week...
...city. The defenders of the clinics, some of them Catholics like the Morreales, were led by an outsider, Abortion Advocate William Baird of Long Island. After their baby's baptism was halted, the distraught Morreales called Baird for advice, and he flew to Boston eager for a public showdown. Unfortunately, perhaps, the archdiocese of Boston was in a mood to oblige...
...reality of the debate was that no minds on the committee were being changed, but the cases for and against the President were being staked out for the showdown on the floor of the House. Noting the Democratic lineup against him on the committee, Sandman told fellow Nixon supporters: "You're going to have a far better forum on another day ? in the House...
...center of this circle is the totem of Executive privilege?Nixon is ostensibly not protecting himself but his own and his presidential successors' institutional prerogatives. The irony is that the Watergate scandal, and the particular showdown before the Supreme Court, is more dangerous to the presidency than any voluntary concession concerning his privilege would be. By his actions, Nixon has invited a ruling from the highest court that may for the first tune put stated limits on the very immunity he professes to protect...
...time-wasting debates. Nearly a day was devoted to arguing over whether the committee should meet in closed or open sessions. Another half-day was spent debating whether the committee should decide in advance what constituted an impeachable offense. The committee postponed the decision, chiefly to avoid a partisan showdown. But Republican Representative Delbert Latta of Ohio, a Nixon defender, maintained in retrospect: "If we'd defined an impeachable offense to begin with, we wouldn't have gone so slowly. It would have been clear that largely unproven charges weren't going to be relevant...