Word: alto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really getting to be scary," complains Defense Attorney Tom Nolan of Palo Alto, Calif. "We're going back to 16th and 17th century Britain, where if you committed a crime you forfeited your property." Possessions used in committing certain federal crimes, a car for example, have long been subject to seizure. Since 1970, however, Congress has also allowed confiscation of the proceeds of some crimes under half a dozen major federal crimebusting statutes. Business began booming after a 1984 law provided for seizure of crime-related assets even if they have been sold or transferred. Moreover, money from the sale...
...suspect there is a larger community [of gay students], but I don't really see it that much," says Douglas G. Chang, a senior from Palo Alto, Ca. He says one of his freshman roommates came out in the spring of their first year...
...Jill Hutchinson of Madison, Wisc.; Sandy Junta of Summerset, N.J.; Anne Koerckel of Andover; Anne Hardy of Wallingford, Conn.; Nicole Engh of Alameda, Calif.; Heather McCann of Sunveil, Calif.; Maisha Moses of Cambridge; Valarie Mellen of Sea Cliff, N.Y.; Mary Ruppe of Mishawa, Ind.; and Julie Hopkins of Palo Alto, Calif...
Through the New Age cults, which include devotees of Indian gurus, flying saucers, holistic medicine, tarot cards and you name it, the word spread: the sky is falling. Alternate version: let's have a party, potluck, and bring your own drums. A Palo Alto, Calif., outfit called Global Family set up a telephone network. And since this is August and there isn't much news, the press got out its own drums...
...with somebody," and the vocal scorches. The rest of the album -- a mixture of party songs and love songs -- displays its star's subtler readings, greater vocal nuance, more dynamism and control. On the jazzy ballad Just the Lonely Talking, she eases into an adventurous scat duet with an alto sax. But she can still sing it straight and sweet, as in Michael Masser's romantic elegy Didn't We Almost Have It All, an instant standard with a spiraling melodic line...