Word: charting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Success helps too. The group's new album, What Up, Dog?, is currently cooking on Billboard's Top Pop Albums, and the first single, Spy in the House of Love, hit the No. 1 position on the dance chart. The band has been a smash in Europe, but until the release of What Up, Dog?, America seemed to resist its charms. "We had a hip cachet in Europe," says David, the band's co- founder and lyrics writer. "In America we were has-beens." David puts the band's long history together with its newfound fortune and reckons...
...federal manual features a chart that puts infractions into 43 categories and lists corresponding penalties. The sentence is increased according to such factors as use of a weapon, the amount of money involved and prior criminal record. A judge can depart from the recommended numbers in unusual circumstances but must explain why in writing; both sides can then appeal the sentence...
...case decided by the Supreme Court last week, which stemmed from a 1987 Kansas City cocaine bust, the sentencing chart called for a 15-to-21- month jail term for defendant John Mistretta. The federal district court had given him 18 months, but Mistretta's lawyer argued that the sentencing system violated the Constitution by blurring the separation of powers among the branches of Government. Congress had, for instance, given both legislative and executive functions to a commission within the judicial branch. The commission's recommendations have the force of law unless Congress vetoes them within six months. Justice Harry...
...CHART: NOT AVAILABLE...
CREDIT: TIME Chart by Joe Lertola...