Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) has arranged for an airing of all three films on the congressional closed-circuit television network; the Biograph Theatre in Washington has been showing the films to sellout crowds, cancelling Hitchcock flicks to do it. And producer Joseph Papp plans to show the films at his public New York theatre...
...swiftly, it is said, there was scarcely time to order a second round. To understand the reason for the ban, a familiarity with bedrock religion would be handy-that and oldtime values. And to understand its effect is to appreciate paradox. The contradiction, in the words of Circuit Court Judge J. Edward Tease, has been "institutionalized bootlegging." Too, as Architect Gerald Wade was instructing an inquisitor the other day, "Your question is phrased wrong. The question isn't how long the county has been dry, but, rather, whether it's ever been dry." One must call upon...
Look inside the Mass. Ave. lobby of Bay Bank/Harvard Trust. Nine automatic teller machines (ATMs) are spewing cash to lines of lunch-hour customers. A separate crowd waits to be served by an army of a dozen tellers. A closed-circuit television repeats the bank's current commercials. Potted palms, ads for trips to Hawaii, and green and blue hues strike you from every direction. It is, unmistakably, supermarket banking...
...circuit court judge in Minnesota is expected to decide soon whether to grant an injunction to three University of Minnesota students who have challenged...
...were mostly delighted, and his critics were momentarily disarmed. At the midpoint of his term, the choice of O'Connor continues to control the public impression of Reagan's judicial nominations. With little public fanfare, he has appointed 88 other judges to life tenure on district and circuit courts-the federal trial and appeals bench. They, and other nominations to come, assure Reagan a potent legal legacy that some judiciary watchers find thrilling, others chilling. As a group, his choices very much wear the Reagan brand: they are mostly white, male and conservatively Republican. At the same time...