Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...racists..." shivers across the Fenway in the gray drizzle quivers a pale, unshaven man. He's baby-blue double-knit dressed chic and he's bitching at a hulking, red lumber jacketed Militant vendor who's tucked his Militant under his arm in a white, plastic garbage bag Disposable...
...comply with a general standard of civility. This means that any registration of dissent that materially interferes with the speaker's right to proceed is a punishable offense. Of course a member of the audience may protest in a silent, symbolic fashion, for example, by wearing a black arm band. More active forms of protest may be tolerated such as briefly booing, clapping hands, or heckling. But any disruptive activity must stop when the chair or an appropriate university official requests silence. Failure to quit in response to a reasonable request for order is a punishable offense...
Another old law in which Thompson found new possibilities was a 1934 extortion statute, originally aimed at strong-arm labor racketeers, which carries a 20-year maximum sentence. Big Jim turned the statute into a particularly potent law-enforcement weapon in a major 1973 case in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Previously, prosecutors had expended considerable effort proving, say, that a policeman who had extorted payments from a tavern owner had used fear of violence or harassment to force his victim to pay. The appeals court bought Thompson's argument that the law did not deal only with...
Economist Walter Heller asserts that "a $16 billion stimulus is a shot in the arm, but if we really want to reverse things, let's mainline it." Heller urges a net tax cut of $20 billion to $25 billion. He notes that "even if recovery started next fall and proceeded at a sustained 6% annual growth rate in real gross national product, it would not bring us back even to 6% unemployment before late...
...result, second-hand equipment, once regarded as throwaway junk, is now attracting premium prices. New drilling pipe sells for $10.50 per ft. when available; when it is not, wildcatters often settle for used pipe supplied by oilfield hustlers at $20 per ft. "They charge an arm and a leg," complains Walter Bates, owner of a well-service firm in Odessa, Texas. "But I'm happy to pay any price to get the equipment I need." Sometimes, the equipment is not only high-priced but hot as well. Says Sheriff Elwood Hill of Odessa: "They are stealing just about everything...