Word: barring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What accounts for this decline in decorum? Airlines run a virtually free, open bar in first and business class, where some of the nastiest episodes occur. The booze is supposed to keep customers calm but may be having the opposite effect on some. Others say being deprived of a different vice, cigarettes, is a major cause of unruliness. No wonder Austrian Airlines has said it will offer nicotine-substitute inhalers to passengers once a soon-to-come smoking ban takes effect. Then there are those who blame the airlines themselves. Says Hal Salfen, of the International Airline Passengers Association: "Flights...
Harvard's Academic All-Ivy selections for the 1998 fall season are: senior Jaime Chu (w. soccer), senior Penny Fairbairn (field hockey), senior Melissa Forcum (w. volleyball), senior Margaret Schotte (w. cross country), senior Emily Stauffer (w. soccer), junior Dror Bar-Ziv (m. water polo), senior Dean Jacobson (football), senior Andrew Lundquist (m. soccer), senior Peter Strothman (sailing) and senior Lee Williams (m. soccer). --EDUARDO PEREZ...
Even the American Bar Association, which took a strong hand in crafting the original statute, may change its position in February, when its house of delegates will vote on an A.B.A. task-force report that recommends scrapping the law. If it must be kept, the task force argues, only the President, Vice President and Attorney General should be covered by it. Also, the Attorney General should have a role in selecting the independent counsels, and the Justice Department should not be tied to a hair-trigger threshold of evidence in deciding whether a counsel should be appointed. Other critics argue...
...began to question rough, traditional training methods. These beatings, writes Monty, went on weekly for several years. Worse: during World War II, when Marvin worked as a policeman, Monty saw his father disarm a knife-wielding black soldier who was trying to hold up the Golden Dragon bar in Salinas and then beat the man to death...
...become stewards of the land again." In Lankard's view, not only the trees and streams were endangered; so were the native cultures that depended on them. But he was taunted on the street and cursed at sea. An Indian logger pushed him against a wall in a Cordova bar and threatened him with a pool cue. He was voted off the Eyak Corp. board and sued twice...