Word: benches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state's voters endorsed Initiative 350, which prohibited local school boards from requiring busing as a desegregation tool. Seattle school officials went to federal court and won the right to continue busing, which was proceeding peacefully. But opponents of their plan took the issue to the high bench and picked up the support of the Reagan Justice Department...
...Meet the Press set, which looks like a courtroom lighted by Wurlitzer, the guest faces four questioners arrayed behind a judge's bench. That four on one, according to Moderator Bill Monroe, gives the lone guest the sympathy vote, but Kirkpatrick is not one to ask for sympathy. A former college professor, she has the manner of someone used to feeling intellectually superior to those she talks to, and probably must nudge herself not to talk that way to fellow diplomats or journalists...
John J. Sirica, 78, chief judge of Washington's Federal District Court. Nicknamed "Maximum John" for his tough sentences, Sirica never believed defense argument that Watergate burglars had acted alone and said so from bench. Survived massive heart attack in 1976, thanks to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Retired from full-time bench duty in 1977, but still handles civil suits, gets full salary of $70,300. His autobiography To Set the Record Straight (sold almost 100,000 copies in hard-cover), written with help of TIME Senior Correspondent John F. Stacks, is being made into TV movie...
...made varsity her junior year, only to become a "bench warmer in a real way." That season, Williams said she herself played much better but that the team, plagued by size problems and absenteeism, never got on track...
...received due recognition, the team votes every year to determine which second-string player made the most contribution both tangible and intangible to the team. Boteler clearly set the bill. Although she hit safely only four times, the reserve outfielder ranked among the team leaders in important categories like bench chatter and carrying equipment after the game...