Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford's direction, Buchen worked throughout the Labor Day weekend to provide legal grounds for a pardon. He found precedents to establish that a pardon need not await an indictment or conviction. For example, he cited the case of a reporter who had been pardoned before testifying in a criminal action involving the customs department ?during the Wilson Administration...
...first act of a still to be completed three act drama. Alfred the Great, when seen by itself, ultimately fails as an independent work of art, but in part one Horowitz gives indications of the originality and strength of his dramatic imagination that should keep appetites sharp as we await parts two and three...
Whatever the outcome of Pinochet's review of the sentences, the results of the trials were hardly encouraging to the approximately 6,000 political prisoners still held by the junta. They include such high officials of the Allende government as Foreign Ministers Clodomiro Almeyda and Orlando Letelier, who await trial under the same judicial process...
Even without an upsurge of terrorism, however, the situation could easily get out of hand. Even Perón, with all his popularity, was unable to maintain order among the country's conflicting groups. None of the problems disappeared with his death. They all await solution by La Presidente Isabelita...
...seems, is left alive on earth - dat ole debble thermonuclear disaster (shades of On the Beach and The World, the Flesh and the Devil) has struck again. Deep in a cave, eleven computer-selected citizens, each with some tal ent useful to get the world spinning again, await word that the radiation level on the surface is survivable. Meantime, they share a coed dorm, done up by a grateful government in its most lavish 2001 style. A prerecorded television tape keeps urging them to start group therapy sessions, and considering the speed with which they start gnawing away at each...