Word: court
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CINCINNATI--Pete Rose won in court yesterday when a state judge, saying A. Bartlett Giamatti had "prejudged" the case, blocked the baseball commissioner from holding a hearing on evidence that the Cincinnati Reds manager bet on his team...
City officials said they would not be surprised if Harvard decided to take the matter to court...
...center court for NCAA tournament games and they're thanking me," Veneziano says. "I felt like hugging them...
Caught between the need to reassure the outside world and intimidate citizens at home, China's aging leaders are still groping for a way out of the political morass. The desire to grind out all traces of the democracy movement takes precedence. A court in Shanghai accused three people of burning a train that ran over a human barricade, and quickly sentenced them to death. The harsh actions open the door to a wave of execution orders. Such a move would be tragic for China's psychic well-being and potentially fatal for its economic health, and it was unthinkable...
...architects of the debacle, Li and Yang could eventually prove liabilities to Deng, and he might have to jettison them. An alternative could be provided by Qiao Shi, an unfamiliar Politburo member, who emerged as a rising star after a telegram from the Supreme Court congratulated him for his support of the military crackdown...