Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UUNDER THE TENUOUS LEGAL framework of the state of emergency, which gives the government a virtual blank check on arrest and detention, the reasons for moderate response on the part of Blacks have quickly faded. A preliminary report on the condition of South African jails released last week found that 83 percent of the 176 former prisoners in the sample reported some sort of physical torture, including beatings, forced standing, electric shock and strangulation...
Lafayette capitalized on Columbia turnovers to blank the hapless Lions, 20-0, Saturday at Easton...
...before I would do it." Some observers of the music business believe that the RIAA acquiesced to label warnings because it did not want to ruffle feathers while lobbying for passage of a bill that would place a surcharge on the manufacture of home recording equipment and blank tape. Gortikov denies such charges and instead talks generally about "de facto censorship" and "the possible dilution of rights." Ling, now a consultant for the P.M.R.C., asserts that "any artist who is a true artist won't care about a rating." Singers and songwriters have other ideas. "I feel more akin...
...advance enthusiasm has focused on NBC's The Golden Girls, about a trio of unattached women in their late middle years, searching for husbands in Miami Beach. Bea Arthur plays an acerbic substitute teacher, Rue McClanahan is a fading Southern belle, and Betty White is one of those blank-eyed ninnies who exist nowhere except in TV sitcomland. In a typical exchange, Arthur laments that she is growing old: "I looked in the mirror and caught a glimpse of myself and almost had a heart attack. There was this old woman staring me in the face." White, after a pause...
...fooled: lead-lined bags sold to protect film can shield weapons from detection, and metal foil can sometimes be used to distort the shape of an image. It is up to the operator of the X-ray machine to insist on opening a bag for closer inspection when a blank mass or an unusual image appears on the screen. Checked luggage is not routinely examined or X-rayed. When there is cause for suspicion, such as a discrepancy between the number of people who check in for a flight and the number who actually board, airlines may empty the plane...