The court's historic ruling in favour of not just a woman but an actor was thereafter known as the 'De Havilland Decision'.
After one lawyer suggested that a ruling of his was not adequately supported, he responded by footnoting every word in the first paragraph of a later decision, including "a," "the" and "two" ("the cardinal number between one and three in the Arabic number system probably derived from Old English," according to Footnote 4).
She has been part of the states' rights majority, but her opinion last year in the age discrimination case made a point of not ruling out "powerful remedies" by Congress in other cases.
And in Mexico's recent legislative election, it was the Institutional Revolutionary Party, a lumbering titan of the centre-left, that gained at the expense of the ruling conservatives, not parties of a more radical stripe.At the same time, Latin America's far left seems a less attractive option for people hard hit by recession.
Recently, Sweden's ruling Moderates accused Schyman of "not living in the real world", pointing to far-left policies such as disarming the military and ending immigration controls.
They stayed in Poland after the war to form the nucleus of the ruling class — not in the vicious manner of Berman, but out of a genuine belief that they could change and modernize society.
Under Mr. Mbeki's leadership, the fruits of the nation's hard-fought victory over apartheid have gone mainly to officials and former officials of the ruling African National Congress, not to the millions of poor people in the townships who faced down the dogs, the bullets and the pass laws and still must live without adequate jobs, education, housing or health services.
Three months ago, a federal appeals court upheld much of the lower court's ruling, though not all of it.
The frequent resort to violence that so marked the period was thus the default position of a ruling elite not really prepared to rule.
Indeed the ruling of the NLRB is not likely to kill the term.
