Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shameless Taft. Burger had only agreed to the question-and-answer gathering to help publicize last week's monumentally titled National Conference on the Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice-a meeting of 275 legal leaders to explore deficiencies in the system of justice. The irony in the decision to give his first press conference is that Burger, on the one hand, tends to carry his sense of dignity almost to the point of mediaphobia, while on the other hand he has energetically lectured and lobbied for legal reforms that he believes are needed...
...early favorite has been track's answer to George Blanda, 43-year-old Jack Foster. Foster, a New Zelander, has a 2:11 marathon to his credit in the past, but with steep Heartbreak Hill looming and with the projected tropical temperatures, look to the runners from warmer climes--the South Americans and Africans...
...Professor Franklin Zimring, reports in a forthcoming study that plea bargaining and lesser charges were regularly used to evade the law's intent, suggesting to the authors "that legislation prescribing mandatory capital punishment for premeditated or felony-murder would not be mandatory in effect." Supporters of mandatory executions answer that the new capital punishment laws do as well as is humanly and systemically possible and that the death penalty is necessary to deter violent crime...
Student activists in the 1960s were "spoiled brats out after publicity, made by the media and contributing nothing but disorder and chaos. You only contribute by persuasion and propaganda--not by lying down in the streets and looking sloppy and dirty," Rand said in answer to caught everyone's attention at the Business School...
...Sorry," came the answer with a smile, "but not at my expense...