Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their intimacy, however, King emphatically rejected Barnett's financial claim and indicated that she would fight the lawsuit. Quite apart from the impact that the case may have on the law, lesbians and the litigants, it clearly carries dangerous topspin for the image-conscious women's tennis circuit...
LeBaron has a lot of company on the inside. Harvard circuit. Love Story reduced the life of the undergrad to sports and sex. One L demonstrated the collective ego of the Harvard Law School, and The House of God wildly captured the spirit of interns at Beth Israel Hospital. Paper Chase even scamed its way onto TV. There was little territory left for a writer to snatch, so LeBaron now moves us into the classrooms and anatomy labs of Harvard Medical School or, as Samuel Shem called it in House of God. BMS--Best Medical School...
...When Circuit Court Judge Byron Kinder stepped to the bench in his Jefferson City, Mo., courtroom one day last week, he looked down on an unusual audience: 100 lawyers. They were not there by choice; they had come in response to a subpoena that warned, "Fail not to appear at your own peril." All 100 work for Missouri agencies based in Jefferson City, the state capital. In a drastic and perhaps unprecedented step, Kinder had summoned them so that he could press them into service as public defenders for indigent criminal defendants...
...cross range" so that it could glide a full 1,200 miles either to the right or left of its original orbital trajectory after re-entering the atmosphere. That would enable a Florida-launched shuttle, which travels about 1,000 miles south of Vandenberg on its first circuit of the earth, to land at the military field after only one orbit-and also reduce the risk of an unwelcome descent into hostile territory in case of an abort...
...hard-line instincts of the President himself. The confrontational overtones of the Reagan foreign policy to date hark back to a vigorously anti-Soviet presidential campaign and, before that, to Reagan's long career as an unabashedly old-fashioned anti-Communist speaker on the Republican rubber-chicken circuit. Reagan felt all the more justified in making anti-Sovietism the cornerstone of his foreign policy since he came to office in a landslide victory over Jimmy Carter, who was generally perceived as soft on the Soviet challenge. There is little question that many Americans were ready for a tough stance...