Word: belton
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...only after recent pictures were analyzed. They showed that the ring material indeed appears to flow from the rump end of the moons, and that the moons and rings orbit the planet at identical angles. "We have a definitive answer to the origin of this ring system," says Michael Belton, leader of the Galileo imaging team...
...white vote. When Dinkins steps down on New Year's Day, it will mark the first time in 20 years that none of the nation's four largest cities have a black mayor. But Minneapolis, which is 78% white, elected its first black (and first woman) mayor, Sharon Sayles Belton. In Seattle, 75% white, Norman Rice bore the double burden of incumbency and race but nonetheless swept to re-election by a 2-to-1 vote; he has convinced many residents that he is a problem-solving pragmatist whose race is irrelevant. Mayor Michael White, a self-described "pragmatic idealist...
...strikes and you're out" law that mandates life imprisonment without parole for anyone convicted of a third violent felony. Yet would-be tough guys can lose too. John Derus based his campaign for mayor of Minneapolis entirely on a law-and-order appeal but was swamped by Sayles Belton, who pledged an increase in social services...
Barbara R. Hoffman '57, representing the OpenGate Foundation, which funded the event,introduced Stupsky by saying, "I hope that nextyear's Alice Belton event will be the one thatcelebrates the end of that damned policy...
...George Hennard, 35, an unemployed seaman with a reputation as an oddball. An intemperate recluse who apparently hated women, Hennard was thrown out of the merchant marine in 1989 for possessing a small amount of marijuana. He lived alone in his mother's stately brick house in nearby Belton, where he delighted in screaming obscenities at passing females and harassing neighbors with threatening letters. But Hennard's strange life-style could not begin to explain the enormity of his act. Said police chief Francis Giacomozzi: "There was nothing we recovered to show he was capable or intended to do anything...