Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vice Mayor Lawrence Frisoli suggested setting up a permit program to insure Cambridge residents would use the playing field, which will include a tennis court...
...Chemical Co., a major producer, denied there was any proof that in normal agricultural use the herbicides hurt humans and promised court action to stop the ban. But the EPA said it had no choice. Explained Deputy Administrator Barbara Blum: "The warning signals from the miscarriage study, the preponderance of strong animal test data and the low short-term economic impact compel emergency action. Taken together these facts sound an alarm...
...years, these "frozen assets" have been a major block to trade because the Chinese could not send ships or planes to the U.S. for fear that they might be confiscated under court orders. Now the U.S. has agreed to free blocked Chinese bank accounts totaling $80.5 million, and Peking has agreed to pay just that amount against 384 separate American claims totaling $196.9 million. The China payout is about 41? on the dollar, a settlement that is high by the standards of other similar U.S.-Communist pacts, but which is worth only about 15? per dollar in 1949 terms...
...novel, Members of the Tribe, and in Simple Justice, documenting the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school segregation, the legal system has been an inspiring force for Richard Kluger. His latest novel, Star Witness, traces the life and crimes of Feminist Lawyer Tabor Hill. A woman with a hair-trigger wit, she could give lessons in politics to Machiavelli. An affair with a judge, a partnership in an exclusive firm, legal aid to the poor-she does it all, and she does it well. So does Kluger, who knows the layout of the corridors of small-city power down...
...decision to schedule a new trial marks the first time that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has prohibited peremptory challenges based on the race of the juror...