The-18 month period is a compromise between the feeling that two years is a little bit too long for non-contested cases and that one year seems a little bit short to reflect on matters properly.
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MARGARET SPELLINGS My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat... MARGARET SPELLINGS And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular... MARGARET SPELLINGS Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ... MARGARET ATWOOD My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r... MARGARET WALKER A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. MARGARET ATWOOD If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz... MARGARET ATWOOD If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. MARGARET THATCHER The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many... MARGARET ATWOOD A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. MARGARET THATCHER I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w... MARGARET THATCHER An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. MARGARET ATWOOD If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. MARGARET ATWOOD Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be... MARGARET ATWOOD I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,... MARGARET ATWOOD When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. MARGARET ATWOOD You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit... MARGARET ATWOOD Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo... MARGARET ATWOOD Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ... MARGARET ATWOOD So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo... MARGARET STOHL Don't let the bastards grind you down. MARGARET ATWOOD When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict. MARGARET ATWOOD Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls. MARGARET HEFFERNAN Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. MARGARET FULLER Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar... MARGARET MEAD I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a... MARGARET CHO At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,... MARGARET CHAN Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let... MARGARET BECKETT Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. MARGARET HEFFERNAN The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ... MARGARET ATWOOD People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you... MARGARET THATCHER