Word: bulleting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first application of the Undergraduate Council's bullet-in-the-foot Nelson-Grimmelmann Act suggests the former. The Act submits selected council resolutions to the Dean of the College for endorsement. Its supporters claim that resolutions which pass both the council's ratification process and the Dean's review will give the U.C. more credibility...
...teacher Gwenne Mayor as she tried to shield the 29 children she had taken there for phys ed. She died on the spot. Then he moved around the room, methodically shooting the screaming children, chasing some as they ran and pumping at least one and sometimes three or more bullets into the little bodies. Then he retreated to a corner away from the carnage and fired the final bullet into his own brain...
...integrity, broken down into three easily mastered steps: "(1) discerning what is right and what is wrong; (2) acting on what you have discerned, even at personal cost; and (3) saying openly that you are acting on your understanding of right from wrong." Thus the abortion provider, risking a bullet to serve his or her patients, can be a person of integrity--if she has truly reflected on what she is doing and admits to being "morally troubled by it"--as can the antiabortion activist who is blocking her path to the clinic. Maybe in his next book...
...this simple, why during executions by firing squad (such as the one last month in Utah), does one of the guns contain blanks, not bullets? No one shooter definitively knows if he fired the fatal bullet. If the job of an executioner were morally justified beyond doubt, there would be no need to lift off any individual's shoulders the responsibility for the execution...
...gave the men no information. But when he learned about the thick dossier the detectives had managed to compile about Wigand, a former vice president of Brown & Williamson and the highest-ranking tobacco executive ever to turn whistle blower, he was appalled. "It hit me like a silver bullet," says Alfarano. "[B&W] can deal with one or two defectors, but I think [they wanted] to send a signal to anybody else who's thinking about testifying...