Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoot Martin Luther King," Ray insisted in his statement. Instead of revealing new evidence of a plot to kill King, Ray stuck to his claim that he had been framed by an elusive stranger named Raoul, whom he had met in a Montreal bar after escaping from a prison in Jefferson City, Mo., on April 23, 1967. It was Raoul, Ray insisted, who asked him to buy a telescopic-sighted rifle in Birmingham and a pair of binoculars in Memphis-and it was Raoul who must have left them near the scene of the shooting, well marked with...
...decide sentences. "After all, they are the impartial figures in the System," says Yale Law School Professor Abraham Goldstein. But in plea bargaining it is generally the prosecutor and not the judge who in effect decides whether and for how long a defendant is going to jail. Indeed, American Bar Association standards forbid judges to participate in bargaining, because the defendant would feel coerced to accept the judge's recommendation. Whether judges do participate varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Often, says Alschuler, they do it implicitly, with veiled threats, cajolery, hints, nods and winks...
...been acting lately like a man lining up friends and gathering power. When Jimmy Carter refused an invitation to speak to a national conference of mayors in Atlanta, Kennedy swiftly accepted; he moved just as fast last week when Carter was unable to address a meeting of the American Bar Association in New York City. Suddenly Kennedy seemed to be everywhere. He split publicly with the President over what he considered broken campaign promises on national health insurance. At the same time, he was on television answering a lot of questions about the magazine articles in which his wife Joan...
...identity couples who buy for 'me' rather than 'we,' " says Larry Light, an executive vice president of BBDO, the advertising agency. "They don't buy as a family. We have to sell to them as individuals. Everybody has his or her own bar of soap and bottle of shampoo." Rena Bartos, a senior vice president at J. Walter Thompson, suggests that career couples are a prime target for a host of products, but explains, "We are still in the discovery stage as to how this market should be tapped...
...idea of peddling legal services over the tube between deodorant and beer ads is enough to make many lawyers wince. Advertising was banned by bar associations as "unprofessional" until last year, when the Supreme Court struck down that prohibition as unconstitutional. The American Bar Association immediately went along as far as newspaper, magazine and radio ads were concerned but held off on TV. Last week, as some 10,000 lawyers met in New York City for the association's annual convention, that obstacle fell away too. By a vote of 141 to 69, the A.B.A.'s House...