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...slip back toward politics as usual has raised no cries of alarm, because even the bad old system managed to produce a federal judiciary of a generally high quality. Many of the U.S.'s most respected jurists, including every Chief Justice but Harlan Slone, were political activists before taking the bench. But the Democratic Congress is now completing action on a bill to expand the federal judiciary by one-third, adding 113 new district and 35 new appellate judgeships. The bill has been delayed for years, awaking a Democratic President, and legislators are rubbing their hands in anticipation...
...worker of 1976 is now marked by critics as the political incompetent of 1977 " The New York Daily News's James Wieghart saw a "concern bordering on panic ... friends and advisers feel his presidency hangs in the balance." When the polls at last did begin to show a slip in Carter's popularity, how could any Jeremiah make his alarms more alarmist...
...speech at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., he said he had no intention of "letting the money supply grow at a rate that will fuel the fires of inflation." He added that unless Government policies shift to bolster business confidence, unemployment may remain high, and the economy could soon slip into another recession...
...truer lady than those who only appear to be. She is a yielding Eliza, melting over a bowl of soap "smelling like primroses" but she is also a Liza quick to assert her own worth. "I'm a good girl, I am," Eliza repeatedly tells Higgins. And with a slip into the old accent or a beautifully rolled letter "r" that is a hint too beautifully rolled, Moynihan welds the link between the new kind of good girl...
During the last part of the first half, play evened out. The Crimson came as close to scoring as they would all day when John Williams crossed the goal line, only to have the ball slip out of his hands and through the endzone before he could put the pigskin down...