Word: certained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unanimous opinion, the high court rejected the principle that the executive branch may keep certain papers secret, a practice that is used in some form in about one quarter of the states and by the federal executive branch...
...trial in Superior Court, lawyers for Babets and Jean asked Judge James P. Lynch Jr. to order the Dukakis administration to divulge certain documents relating to the policymaking process...
When it opens this Friday in New York, Los Angeles and other cities, religious crowd scenes are almost certain to appear outside the theaters as well as in them. For the past month, conservative Christians have denounced the film as blasphemous, staged demonstrations, called for boycotts and shaped a national campaign to have the picture destroyed or withdrawn. Along the way, there have been anti-Semitic incidents and threats against the "non- Christians" at Universal Pictures who took a chance on the film partly to encourage the filmmaker to pursue future projects at the studio...
...Olympians don't often look so far ahead or behind. They literally put the one foot after the other that the rest of us frequently talk about, tolerating a certain level of anguish for a special plane of excellence. They cover themselves in tape and rosin and chalk, and sometimes glory. They take off in sprays of sawdust and alight in splashes of gold. They're driven, until they're driven out. Olympians are said to have a glow about them, and not just the glow of beaded sweat. But they make others glow as well. They mention who they...
Gail Sheehy seems to think so, and her recently-released Character: America's Search for Leadership proceeds from this assumption. Responding to many Americans, even certain members of the media, who believed that the press had gone too far in reporting the Gary Hart scandal of last year and had shown unmatched arrogance and overzealous tenacity in the process, Sheehy argues that understanding a candidate's character strengths and weaknesses is indispensible for understanding the candidate himself...