Word: circuitous
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...exchanges, including the New York and London markets, considered plans to shut down temporarily, as they did at the start of World War I and the end of World War II. Instead, they enacted emergency rules to limit wide market gyrations. Rather than prevent a crash, the so-called circuit breakers acted mainly to brake the wild upward surges...
...that left him irretrievably comatose. The man had lived in mental hospitals since 1951, but even if his previous competence had been unquestionable, he now has no immediate family or close friends who could tell a court whether he wanted life-prolonging care. In June an Eau Claire County Circuit Court judge decided that L.W.'s legal guardian, Paul Lenz, has the right to decide whether to halt life supports. Lenz has appealed to the state supreme court for guidance...
...Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ruled that lists of jurors in criminal cases must be released to the public unless doing so would endanger the jurors' lives. The decision puts to rest, at least for now, a long simmering dispute between judges and journalists over access to the names of jurors who decide criminal cases...
...Noriega's conversations in Spanish that CNN had revealed were in its possession. When Hoeveler issued an injunction forbidding broadcast of the recordings, CNN, which had previously disseminated parts of several tapes, still went ahead to air one purporting to ^ contain Noriega's talks with attorneys. After the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld Hoeveler's prohibition, the network appealed to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. He referred the matter to the full nine-member bench, which at week's end was considering an emergency CNN petition to rescind...
When they finally started fooling around with mariachi sounds in the mid-' 70s, the band members found another ingredient for its unique sound, as well as a further source of income: with a repertory of Mexican favorites, they could work the local wedding circuit. Eventually the coming of punk and the revitalizing of the Los Angeles music scene lured them out of the barrio and over to the Sunset Strip, where they found the beginnings of an audience that would turn them into a critics' favorite (they were 1984's Band of the Year in Rolling Stone) and a campus...