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...rebate to stimulate the economy. The President broke a public promise, charged Muskie, and disappointed people who expected to get the money. The Senator exploded again when Carter announced a hit list of water projects, including the Dickey-Lincoln dam in Maine that Muskie wanted. The President later prudently withdrew the Maine project from his list...
When Magruder said "Here!" he was referring to the place he kept his derogatory information on the Democrats. Whenever he had called me in to verify some rumor about, for example, Jack Anderson, it was from there that he withdrew whatever he already had on the matter. The purpose of the second Watergate break-in was to find out what O'Brien had of a derogatory nature about us, not for us to get something on him or the Democrats...
...such language is that it tends to be overly broad. Authorities would have to prove state of mind since many items that are tools of the drug trade have perfectly legal uses. Because McDonald's coffee stirrers, for example, can double as cocaine spoons, the restaurant chain recently withdrew them from use. Garden shops, too, could run afoul of such laws: Who can be sure what sort of grass the customer plans to water with his new hose...
...serious mistake when she originally identified the defendent. The arresting officer was formal as to Ms. McGaw's certitude about Mr. Ezera: why doubt his word any more than Mr. Ezera's? But in the "courtroom parody" the error was corrected. The plaintiff, for motives unspecified (awe? fear? doubt?), withdrew her identification. Judge Grabau, although white, displayed the same rigor as Judge Elam: he summoned counsel to the bench, pronounced Mr. Ezera innocent, and thereby expunged the arrest from his record. Your reporter describes this as "the end of the play" but the protagonist still insists that skin...
After Malin filed his first charges with the NLRB, the hospital felt moved to reinstate him. He withdrew the charges against McLean in return for regaining employment and receiving back pay for the five weeks he was suspended. Evidently fearing Malin's ability to rally support among the workers in his unit, the hospital reassigned him to the adult section, which is separate from the Children's Center. By now, Malin had immersed himself in an independent study of labor law; he knew he had the legal right to seek reinstatement in his original job. More charges were filed with...