Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jury followed that exchange intently. Not only were there seven women in the box, but the number of children per juror averaged 3.5-a fact that had pleased Bailey. He assumed that such a jury would be sympathetic to the plight of a girl who was 19 when she was seized...
...after those visits, Bailey put Patty on the stand to tell of her life in the closets. He spoke to her like a father, leaning toward the witness box and questioning her so calmly that the two might have been having an intimate conversation away from the eyes of all the strangers in the room. Patty said that she had lost 15 lbs. in the closets, dropping to a weight of 90 lbs., and that when the blindfolds were removed, the light had stabbed painfully into her eyes. She vividly re-created the tension that she claimed she lived under...
...noneconomic issues, Kissinger promised to negotiate with individual countries on a basis of "parity and dignity." That presumably includes one of the touchiest problems facing the U.S.: the Panama Canal (see box following page). Continuing his global effort to inspire confidence in America's reliability, Kissinger also pledged "to enforce our commitment to mutual security ... against those who would seek to threaten independence or export violence" -meaning the Cubans. In fact, it was Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Pérez who, in his private talks with Kissinger, raised the new "hemispheric reality" of Cuba's Angolan intervention...
Such containers amount to a $ 1.4 billion annual business in the U.S., and the accused firms account for about 70% of the industry's total volume. Included in the indictment are the nation's three largest folding-box producers: Container Corp. of America, Federal Paper Board Co. and American Can Co. Also mentioned in the indictment are unnamed, unindicted co-conspirators -undoubtedly companies that cooperated with the Justice Department's investigation. That suggests a Government belief that price fixing extended not just to 70% of box sales, but also to almost the industry's total volume...
Poisonous Beans. On each of the plants in his garden, Hartman has placed a label that gives its name, lists its nonedible parts and gives the symptoms of poisoning (see box). "We just want people to be aware how easy it is for their kids to get poisoned by playing in the backyard," says Hartman. He points out that toddlers from 18 months to two years old are especially vulnerable because they put almost anything they pick up into their mouths. Next are the three-to-five-year-olds who, he says, "like to 'have a party...