Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reception at the Marriott Hotel after the convention, Kennedy relied on his family history as much as his legislative history to appeal to the nearly 2,000 people who filled the hotel's ballroom and spread into its halls...
...have unrealized potential forself-cultivation, self-direction,self-understanding and creativity," SDS member TomHayden wrote in the port Huron statement. "It isthis potential that we regard as crucial and towhich we appeal...
...series based on TV shows based on comic books -- two Batman ($410 million), four Superman ($400 million) and three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies ($250 million) -- and you have a portfolio that could make any film studio healthy now and for years to come. "The genre has enormous crossover appeal," says producer David Permut. "You're getting people who fondly remember the show, plus a whole younger generation who may know it through syndicated reruns...
...issue has endured a long struggle in Washington. In 1987, Warren McCleskey, a black factory worker in Atlanta, brought an appeal before the Supreme Court. McCleskey, who had been sentenced to death in the killing of a white police officer in 1978, argued that sentencing patterns in Georgia proved racial bias. The court fractured 5-4 against McCleskey, even though Antonin Scalia conceded, in a note to Thurgood Marshall, that prosecutorial and jury decisions are influenced by "the unconscious operation of irrational sympathies and antipathies, including racial." McCleskey was executed in September...
...loses custody appeal -- and is forced to pay Mia's legal bills...