Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Enter the pillared Quincy Market building and your nose will be assaulted by a million appetizing odors--fresh lobster, pot pies, egg rolls, empanadas, pizza, fudge brownies and more. The food court houses more than 20 stalls from which even the most finicky tourist can chose a tasty meals...
...executed anyone since 1984, its government is under intense domestic pressure to hang the man it has held personally responsible for the more than 30,000 deaths caused by the Kurdish insurgency and the government?s own crackdown. But the sentence is now due to go before an appeals court, and will also be appealed by Ocalan at the European Court of Human Rights, so Ankara will have plenty of time to allow passions to cool before it takes a decision. Ocalan?s capture and conviction may have eliminated any security threat he may pose to Turkey, but Ankara...
Neither the verdict nor the sentence was ever in doubt; now Turkey faces a political decision over whether to hang its most hated enemy. Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by a Turkish court Tuesday. The death sentence ?- mandatory for treason ?- goes automatically to an appeals court, where it is expected to be upheld. Then it?s up to parliament and the president to sign off on the hanging ?- and although Turkey hasn?t executed anyone in 15 years, the clamor for Ocalan?s head may prove irresistible. The brutal Kurdish-nationalist insurgency...
...faced with a threatened log-off from the White House by way of a presidential veto, congressional negotiators sat down with White House aides in the past few weeks to address the President?s concerns that consumers not be shortchanged by the legal system should they come to court with a legitimate Y2K gripe. On Tuesday, the two sides announced they had reached a compromise. On Wednesday, though, following continuing opposition from many Democrats, the negotiators said some important details still needed to be worked...
...small businesses, and companies would be held liable only for the portion of damage they cause. ?Both sides would get something,? says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. Industry would get some protections, but, he says ?the bill would still leave a lot of room for people to go to court.? Some key Democrats, however, want the President to keep insisting that that room be kept as large as possible. Meanwhile the big question remains: How necessary is the legislation? This is one of those rare instances where Washington has actually anticipated a problem. But it?s a problem whose dimensions...