Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...described the outcome as the result of "a very zealous presentation." Morgenthau did not deny that his office had been more aggressive the second time around. "There wasn't new evidence," he said, "until we looked for it and found it." Goetz's lawyers insist that there was no actual new evidence...
...person can use deadly force when he perceives his life to be in danger, but not when only his personal property seems likely to be stolen. The key question is often what a victim thinks may happen to him rather than what more objective observers may see as the actual danger. "Even if there is some hideous mistake, and no threat really existed, the law entitles you to respond on the basis of your belief," explains Columbia Law Professor Vivian Berger. One common exception to the rule prohibiting deadly force in the defense of property is when someone invades...
Blacklow practices the piano about four straight hours each day, and stresses that intense concentration on a pieces more important than the actual number of hours spent on it. "Being in the world of the piece is crucial," he explains. "I can tell when I'm not practicing well because I'm thinking about other things...
DRAWING ANALOGIES from history is risky business, but nevertheless there was something about the MX battle unmistakably reminiscent of the early days of Vietnam. In debating the correctness of our involvement there, successive Administration managed nearly to ignore the actual situation in that complicated little country where the odds were heavily stacked against a successful U.S. intervention. Insisted on using Vietnam as an arena in which to demonstrate to friend and foe alike our readiness to resist communism anywhere and everywhere in the world. In addition, foreign servicemen, bureaucrats and lawmakers all backed this position not for its merits, which...
Students pay only about one-third of the actual cost of being at Harvard. In 1962-3, the most recent figures available, tuition accounted for about 35 percent of the Faculty's budget. Some 25 percent came from income on Harvard's $2.3 billion endowment, another 20 percent from federal grants and the remaining percentage from current use gifts and other sources...