Word: cons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ehrenkrantz Group of New York City, which is conducting the study, will examine the energy efficiency and con-currently the air circulation since the two affect each other, she added...
SOKOLOV ATTRIBUTES to Liebling the pioneering work in the foggy area between fiction and journalism which Truman Capote and Norman Mailer later explored. Liebling's greatness lay in his absorption of the entire story--in both senses--behind people and events, from Seventh-Avenue con men to Sugar Ray Robinson. He embraced his subjects' lives and their outlook on the world; searched out their motivations and methods and then laid forth their lives, mostly in their own words--but through his own wild periscope of the self-style uptown revel, the reluctant Jew, the recipient of all that his immigrant...
...18th of November." After a few more introductory words, Bell takes over and tells viewers what happened in the world while they were asleep. At 7:13 Hartman comes back to moderate a sharp debate on school busing between Senators Lowell Weicker and Jesse Helms, the pro and the con. Ten minutes later the show breaks, and some 200 stations give five minutes of local news and weather...
...Michael Escamilla's lazy affected drawl is the perfect voice of doom, and he fills the part of Charlie completely. Maggie Topkis, for the most part, pulls off her characterization of Carol as the tough but sensitive New York Jewish earth mother. Alex Pearson is adequate as the seductive con on the make; if he has some problems, it might fairly be ascribed to the role, which I think is superfluous. The only real gap is Dave Vanderburgh, who is somewhat too slow and static for a slow and static play...
Landau prefers a different safeguard: a statute banning unreasonable discrimination based on old convictions. Eight states, including New Jersey, now have such a law.* But these strictures mean that an ex-con with a beef about discrimination might have to file a lawsuit, generally a lengthy and expensive undertaking. Expungement supporters argue that cleaning a record is only fair. Says Nebraska's Harnsberger: "If you serve the penalty provided by the judicial system, you shouldn't have to pay a lot of other penalties," such as being rejected for jobs. There is a practical reason as well. Says...