Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young women from Florida to the state of Washington. The jury needed only six hours and 40 minutes to reach its verdict, though the trial had lasted for more than a month. The case against Bundy rested heavily on circumstantial evidence. In his 60-minute closing argument, Assistant State's Attorney Larry Simpson recalled the testimony by two dental experts that bite marks on one of the slain girls came from Bundy's teeth...
...provide a continuity to the argument here at Harvard, since we remain although students leave," Snook said. The group intends to investigate Harvard's involvement in the nuclear industry, and possibilities for alternative energy source use throughout the University, Snook added...
UNFORTUNATELY NEITHER the decontrol of oil nor the production of petroleum from unconventional sources nor divestiture of the oil companies is likely to reverse the decline in domestic oil production. The argument that decontrol of oil prices would encourage oil exploration does not obscure the fact that "over 2 million wells have been drilled in the United States--four times as many as in all the rest of the noncommunist world combined." Shale oil would cost far more than conventional oil and takes too long to develop--"a production level equal to about half of one percent...
...except and Texas banned televised trials and Texas gave up on them in the mid-'60s. But in the past three years, 14 have opened up their courts to cameras.* The reason: new technology and changed attitudes have begun to tip the scales in a longstanding debate. The argument for TV cameras in the courtroom is simple enough: the public ought to be able to see what goes on at a trial. The argument against is that jurors will be distracted, that witnesses will be intimidated, and that lawyers and judges, particularly elected judges, will grand stand. In short...
...tolerated today. He really went after people. He taught Anderson to look "first for those personal weaknesses ... to cher ish in an adversary: overweening vanity, bumbling pomposity, addiction to creature comforts, a tendency to alcoholic indiscretion, the heedless pursuit of venery." Opponents were destroyed not by reasoned argument but by a recital of their peccadilloes, endlessly repeated. When Ander son objected to such "scraps and chaff," his boss replied: "Once you catch one of these birds at anything, and you're sure of your facts, never worry about doing him an injustice by overplaying it. We'll never...