Word: brush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exasperation with high crime and chaotic justice does not always produce hasty, broad-brush legislation. Determinate or presumptive sentencing, now the law in eleven states, is a more thoughtful kind of overhaul, a necessary reform of an old reform gone awry. Beginning around 1900, indeterminate sentences?"two to five" or "ten to 20"?became common. As soon as a prisoner could convince a parole board that he had learned his lesson, he could go. Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau says that "prisoners tend to go into rehabilitation programs for the purpose of convincing the parole board that they...
...fuss took Elden Hathaway by surprise. Shock is more like it. A cheerful bear of a man with a beard, a bristling brush cut and a voice that booms as if he were fighting a bad connection, Hathaway exudes the durability associated with oak trees, granite boulders and other sturdy natural acts of Maine. But he is also a stoic after the New England manner, accustomed to the coming and, mostly, the going of all things human. Piece by piece, the Bryant Pond he was born into, two houses down from where he lives today, has vanished...
...single freelance scout would head out by himself to do what damage he could, and four of us would range as an attack squad to capture the opposing red flag. I loped off with the attackers, a middle-aged gun-control advocate in a camouflage shirt, knocking the brush aside with my pistol...
...doggo behind a fallen tree and picked off five red marauders as they attacked his yellow goal. A very long period of woods noises and bug bites followed. Then, less than 15 min. before the game's 2-hr, limit expired, Smith slipped away into the brush. More woods noises; then with 30 sec. to go, Smith crashed into view with a captured red flag and sagged to the ground, chest heaving. He had knocked off the last remaining red defender and won the game. From the woods around, players he had splotched earlier stood up and cheered. Then...
With the economies of Europe as well as the U.S. already in trouble, a brush-fire trade war is the last thing that any government would like to see erupt. Thus, for weeks, U.S. negotiators had been meeting privately with European Community officials in a search for some sort of agreement that would head off the need for action by the Commerce Department. Washington's preferred solution was a voluntary pledge by the Europeans to limit exports. Since 1978 the Japanese have kept their steel sales in the U.S. to approximately 6 million tons annually. It was hoped that...