Word: bench
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Burlington, Iowa, grocer, Matsch, 66, was appointed to the federal bench by Richard Nixon in 1974, and has presided over cases ranging from school desegregation to murder by extremist groups. He and his wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does...
...courthouses around the country normally depict carjackers, kidnappers and other scruffy lawbreakers on the lam. But these days the flyers might just as well feature distinguished men and women in long dark robes beneath the headline HELP WANTED. As of this week, 100 seats on the 844-person federal bench are vacant. Case loads are creeping out of control, and sitting judges are crying for help...
...award. Near the end of the game, Ward backed into Brown, almost upending him. Brown then hooked an arm around Ward's waist, flipped him as if he were a cheerleader and threw him to the floor. Knicks Patrick Ewing, Allan Houston, Larry Johnson and John Starks left their bench, a lesser N.B.A. no-no. The N.B.A. gave a record five Knicks a one-game suspension. Miami's Brown was suspended for two games; Ward...
When the Red Raiders did get on a fast break--which happened only late in the game, when the bench was in and the game was already decided--Harvard quickly doubled-and tripled-down on the breaking player...
After UMass got two in the sixth to take the lead, 7-3, Harvard elected to use the remaining three innings to give the bench and bullpen some playing time. In the end, 23 players, including nine pitchers, saw action...