Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Walsh had left. It would be unfair to his constituents to try to represent them with such a tarnished reputation and credibility; their interests will be put in jeopardy by the lowered stature of their representative. In addition, the considerable time that Walsh will have to take in his appeal process will further limit his effectiveness as a councillor...
WILLIAM HANCE'S APPOINTMENT with the electric chair was set for 7 p.m. Thursday. On Wednesday, the Georgia board of pardons and paroles rejected Hance's appeal for clemency. The next day, both a state and federal court refused to halt the execution; then the U.S. Supreme Court, after a two-hour stay, denied Hance's appeal. Soon after, Hance was strapped into Georgia's electric chair. At 10:10 p.m. he was pronounced dead. The legal skirmishing had gained him exactly 190 extra minutes of life...
...school set up by the & state legislature specifically to help a religious community and perpetuate its life-style. New York's highest court outlawed the school because it creates a "symbolic union" between religion and the state. The Supreme Court last week heard arguments in Kiryas Joel's appeal...
...beautiful to watch. Films can't duplicate the 17-camera omniscience of the World Series on TV, but, as Shelton says, "I can put a camera where none of those 17 can go: on the mound, in the dugout or the shower." With such details, a sports film can appeal even when it is about spring training -- for how many other kinds of contemporary films actually show people working? An athlete's job may be more glamorous and hazardous than most, the payoff quicker and richer, the taste of failure more acrid. But that urge and pressure to do well...
...Harvard this future carries a risk. The University is a business, and with many of its unique information resources likely to be availableover the Internet, administrators worry that theirproduct--a Harvard education--could lose some ofits appeal...