Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tell you the truth, I try not to put too much stock in these sorts of awards," Sasner said. "At the beginning of the year, my expectations were to be the Ivy League champions, to win the Ivy League tournament and to do as well as we could in the ECAC's. My expectation is not to win an award like this...
...major change is the arithmetic. Party rules now award most delegates by congressional district: any candidate who gets 15% of the vote in a district (down from 20% last time) gets a share of the delegates. Of the 167 districts in Super Tuesday states, Jackson's wall maps have 60 of them in blue, meaning that he could win them outright. An additional 45 are marked red, meaning that he could meet the threshold and get some delegates. Even rival campaigns and state party officials believe Jackson could emerge from the 14 Southern and border states with a plurality...
...give a $32 million contract to the Wedtech Corp. This was after Lyn Nofziger, a former Reagan adviser who has been convicted of illegally lobbying the White House for Wedtech, had asked Meese to intervene with the Army. Jenkins then held a White House meeting at which the award was arranged...
...intentional infliction of emotional distress. In 1984 his privacy claim was thrown out by a federal judge, and a jury found no libel, believing no reasonable person could think that the spoof was being presented as factual. But the jury agreed with Falwell's complaint about emotional distress and awarded the televangelist $200,000. Despite the novelty of the verdict, an appeals court upheld the judgment. The jury's award to Falwell set off alarm bells among journalists, political cartoonists, comedians -- anyone who might poke fun at public figures...
...given the protection that more conventional satire and cartooning deserved. But while acknowledging that the ad was "gross and repugnant in the eyes of most," Chief Justice William Rehnquist said for the court that to define and penalize the outrageous would require some very fine judgments, allowing jurors to award damages on the basis of their personal taste or "their dislike of a particular expression." Protecting vulgar parody may not be a pretty task, said Rehnquist, but it has to be done to give the First Amendment "breathing space...