Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sculptor Lysippus or, at least, from his school. At issue is whether the statue was smuggled illegally out of Italy and whether California's J. Paul Getty Museum, which acquired the statue earlier this year in London for $3.9 million, must pay a California sales tax or a Colorado use tax -or neither-on the purchase...
...state for at least six months, so the Getty people have broken the boy's westward passage with stopovers at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and, currently, at the Denver Art Museum. California tax officials have no hope of collecting $234,000 in sales tax, but various Colorado tax officials have filed use-tax claims...
While few disagree with that assessment, there is no consensus over any proposed reform. University of Colorado Law Professor Albert Alschuler argues that determinate sentencing may only force more plea bargaining; with judges and parole boards no longer empowered to mete out mercy, defendants will be under greater pressure to plead guilty to lesser offenses. Concludes Alschuler: "The big winners will be the prosecutors." Chicago's Morris is worried that state legislatures, with their susceptibility to demagoguery on a sensitive issue like crime, "can't be trusted" to set humane sentences...
...simply go on "excess leave," without pay or allowances. The junior service concluded that they deserve the "equal protection" guaranteed any other cadet burdened with "temporary conditions that preclude participation in training." Like anyone with an incapacitating illness, a pregnant cadet may return to the academy's Colorado Springs campus when her "temporary condition" no longer exists. But she may not bring the baby along with her (women on active duty in any of the services may remain, if, after they become mothers, they can perform their military jobs...
...movement. One of young people's primary interests is love-falling in love and getting married. That's a new phenomenon. For the first time in history, more people may be getting married just for love than for other reasons." Donald Johnson, psychologist at the University of Colorado, sees a similar trend. Says he: "The promiscuity concept is dying out like crazy. People are talking about fidelity. It's a revolution against loneliness...