Word: benches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WAIT on a New Orleans park bench for their respective buses to arrive. Every working day, the child takes one bus to school, and the mother rides another to work. When the vehicles pull up, mother and daughter part company, as usual. But the girl realizes she has left her school books on the bench, and she runs back to retrieve them. By now the mother has boarded her own bus. With a maternal premonition of danger, the woman tries...
More black faces on the bench, or even at the stenographer's table, might prove to be just as helpful. "When a black person walks into a court and sees a white judge, white prosecutors, white clerks, white stenographers, do you think they're going to believe they're going to get justice?" asks Franklin Williams, chairman of the New York State Judicial Commission on Minorities. Black attorneys frequently complain that they are not accorded the same respect that their white colleagues receive. Archibald Murray, executive director of the Legal Aid Society in New York City, says black members...
Body language, emotional control and the use of mental imagery are stressed in these drama classes. Attorney Donald Cayea, for example, who took a course at New York City's Corporate Communication Skills, Inc., learned not to argue with a hostile judge. Instead, if the bench repeatedly sustains his opponent's objections, Cayea now looks pleadingly at the jury and shakes his head in a gesture of grief. After taking Applied Theater Techniques' course, a female attorney in California overcame her irritation at a judge who insisted on calling her "little lady" by imagining the male chauvinist in a pink...
Despite his protestations, it could be hard for Bradley, who has the inside- Washington foreign and economic policy experience and star quality that Dukakis lacks, to spurn the call of his party, should it come. Pulled off the bench reluctantly, he can play the exciting savior. The main problem the 6-ft. 5-in. former New York Knicks forward would face is finding a way not to make the 5-ft. 8-in. Dukakis look like the point guard he once...
...court judgment that Lipsig had won for a high school football player who was injured on the field. Lipsig had persuaded the jury that in view of the boy's exhaustion before he went on the field against much larger opponents, the coach should have kept him on the bench. The decision set a precedent: rather than merely exercising "reasonable care" for the player -- the earlier legal standard under New York State law -- coaches must now exercise the same degree of caution as an "ordinary prudent parent...