Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contrary to what the scenes with actual characters have indicated, the tribunal episodes portray the three as bloodthirsty, armed terrorists. The audience knows what really happened. We see another truth replacing ours, and though we don't believe it, we are powerless...
...constituted "plain error." But O'Connor, relying on a 1977 Rehnquist opinion, held them to a tougher test. They must, she said, show good cause for not having raised the issue during the regular trial and appeal process, and they must show that the trial error resulted in actual prejudice to their cases. In the other habeas ruling, O'Connor applied the same test to a federal prisoner. None of the convicts was able to meet the more rigorous standard...
...stately pace, its long preliminaries-the fleet steaming off from England as the Prime Minister quotes Queen Victoria; the weeks at sea as the foreign offices indulge in truculent communiqués and atavistic displays of national plumage. (The long interval between the patriotic eruption and the moment of actual contact also opens up room for negotiation.) A world apocalyptically armed has absorbed the notion that there will not be much safe territory in wars of the future: the war will fall out of the sky one afternoon and land on J.C. Penney's. But in the Falklands...
Recruiting aside, prospective minority applicants are probably "scared away at about the same rate as any other group" that is confused by rumors of the actual and proposed a Reagan budget cuts. Fitzsimmons added...
...championship competition. But unlike the baseball season, for example, which offers 162 direct clashes even before the playoffs, long campaign seasons provide few head-to-head confrontations allowing fans the opportunity to cheer and pundits the occasion to analyze. As a result, any joust short of actual balloting receives an inordinate amount of attention. This is especially so for debates...