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...Supreme Court does not outright reverse," Atkins continued, "it should remand for a wider record. The issue is far too important to decide on such a limited record...
...According to a study by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, a typical U.S. family that now has a $40 monthly winter heating bill would be paying $42.80 next year under Carter's proposed $1.75-per-m.c.f. price ceiling. As the new, more expensive gas came into wider use, that monthly bill would rise...
...protect trademarks clearly endangered by popularity, the owners of such familiar names as Kleenex, Jell-O and even Frisbee constantly monitor newspapers and magazines, television stations and the ads of competitors. They look for any use of their trademarks-say, without capitalization-that implies a wider, generic meaning. Offending writers or editors may get no more than a note or telephone call from the company urging them to avoid future errors. But when a potential rival violates a trademark, the legal battle may be heated...
...Harvard, that turn has assumed a wider sweep. There are classes to attend. There's that 10-hour a week job driving a Harvard-Radcliffe shuttle bus. There's WHRB. There's also the fact that the football program here has turned...
...progress of black American writing, Novelist Toni Morrison once said, is marked by five stages. First comes the heat of protest, and then the more reflective search for personal identity. This is followed by an exploration of culture, a refinement of craft and finally a wider vision of the world. But the important thing, says Morrison, is not to explain but "to bear witness, to record." The author, who is also an editor at Random House, did this in The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1973), novels that dealt with blacks in the Middle West, where the author was born...