Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare case," said Judge Gardner.*Finally, late last week, the jury unanimously returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Said Judge Gardner afterward: "My gamble paid off. The verdict has confirmed my faith in the jury system. They viewed that film, then took into account all the other evidence, and considered it only for its bearing on the psychiatrist's testimony...
Only four of the original 24 tales are used-two in each act. But Chaucer loses remarkably little from the abridgement. First comes the Miller's Tale of Nicholas, the Oxford stud, Absolon, the clerk, and their rivalry for sexy Alison. Then comes the Reeve's account of the hot pillow goings-on in the Miller's family. The show's multiple bed hoppings are cleverly managed by representing the beds with vertically hung sheets and blankets, behind which the actors slip...
...from 250% to 300% and developed nearly four times as many potentially grain-bearing shoots. Under 12,000-cycle sound, growth increased from 20% to 50%. Dr Weinberger admits that she is mystified by the increased growth; the energy supplied by the sound waves is far too slight to account for it She suggests, however, that the sound waves themselves may produce a resonant effect in the plant cells, enabling the energy to accumulate and affect the plant's metabolism...
...General Telephone & Electronics, Parker Pens and American Tourister Luggage. The net gain in billings was $10 million and DDB scarcely stopped to worry. Says Foote, Cone & Belding's Founder, Fairfax Cone: "We can have a cancellation tonight, without anyone batting an eye, of a $1,000,000 account. This means $150,-000 of gross income we had counted on that's gone, and there isn't a goddam thing we can do about it. We don't have any inventory to sell, we don't have a product that we can mark down in price...
...personal level, his chronicles of daily life in prison, his regimen of self-education there, and the account of his romance with his white female lawyer Beverly Axelrod are both eloquent and moving. It is she, in fact, who strikes the most hopeful and perceptive note in this book. "Your hatred is large," she writes to him in a letter, "but not nearly so vast as you sometimes imagine; it can be used, but it can also be soothed and softened...