Word: benches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the bench seats resembled pews, this was no prairie Bible conference: it was a four-day trial in state district court in Tulsa. And the person described in the courtroom as a sinner, diminutive 36-year-old Nurse Marian Guinn, was not on trial; her accusers were, Guinn was suing her church and its elders for $1.3 million in damages for publicly condemning her sexual behavior. She charged that in denouncing her, the Church of Christ in nearby Collinsville (pop. 3,500) had invaded her privacy, intentionally causing emotional distress and shattering her "whole world...
...those who write usually do so because something in the magazine has stirred their emotions. That was true more than ever in 1983. In all, 53,226 readers wrote to TIME last year, a 4% increase over 1982; four cover stories drew more than 1,000 letters apiece, a bench mark reached by only one 1982 story, on the rising fears about nuclear...
...Grove City had to state in writing that it would comply with federal regulations forbidding discrimination against women. Grove City denied it discriminated but refused to sign because it was determined on principle to shun Government red tape. Now, nearly $400,000 in college legal costs later, the high bench has ruled that the student grants do indeed constitute federal aid, triggering federal oversight. But the Justices also found that since Grove City's financial-aid program is the only part of the school affected by federal funds, it alone is subject to Government regulation. Writing for the majority...
...Powers saw the squad while it was still getting its bearings, in a pathetic 79-57 loss in Manhattan in late December. "That was a pretty quiet game," he recalled of the appearance of the entire Harvard bench against the Jaspers...
...That demonstration was one of only four losses--three of them by three points or less--in Harvard's last 14 games, and the Crimson's power down the stretch came despite a mid-February injury to Bob Ferry's foot that kept the star junior guard on the bench for two games and limping for four more...