Word: alleys
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...unsuccessful 1987 fight over Reagan's Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, when they were caught off guard by Senator Edward Kennedy's lightning-fast characterization of Bork--within an hour of Bork's nomination--as a man who would create an America where "women would be forced into back-alley abortions [and] blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters." The label stuck and helped ensure Bork's defeat. For weeks Progress for America, a conservative coalition that has pledged to spend more than $13 million on television ads to support Bush's eventual nominee, has been running pre-emptive spots...
...this case differs from a typical one is that unlike in a traditional whistle-blower scenario in which a source is being protected from potential retaliation, the source or sources being protected in the Cooper case may well have been retaliating against Wilson. "This was leading into a blind alley," says Jim Wheaton, who teaches media law at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. "If the Supreme Court had taken the case, it was likely to say there's no privilege, period." Jay Rosen, chairman of New York University's journalism department, understood the logic of Time...
Gilligan’s body was found on an alley stairwell by a building worker at 6:30 a.m. It remains unclear at what time he fell out the window...
...sheer atmosphere of Watts takes a toll. Says Family Counselor Mary Taylor: "Children lose that good feeling about themselves." Ueemaee Russell, 11, who lives on Grape Street (just off "Charcoal Alley," as 103rd Street has been called since it burned), knows that "people are fighting now over dope and getting raped and kidnaped." When gunfire gets too bad near her house, Sixth-Grader Russell deals with it by crawling under...
...than merely the hack political boss he had first thought have two superpower leaders seemed so ideologically at odds. Reagan and Gorbachev both came to office not with their hands outstretched but with their dukes up. They seemed headed not for the summit of diplomacy but for the back alley of rhetorical scrapping and unbridled competition. Each took over at a time when his side felt threatened. Each gained power in part because he seemed to offer the best antidote to the threat...