Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decided to increase our backcourt pressure," Gellert said. "We got after their guards with a full-court press and just got a bunch of steals. I think that frustrated them...
Outside projects for Harvard faculty range from founding biotechnology companies to taking high-profile court cases, which is not surprising considering faculty members are at the forefront of their fields...
Gary A. Orfield, who is a professor of education and social policy at the Kennedy School, maintains a similar attitude about balancing his outside commitments. He currently serves as court-appointed Special Master in San Francisco's school desegregation court order and testifies in civil rights cases as an expert witness...
Well, what about bundling Explorer with Windows in a blatant attempt to leverage operating system power over into the browser market? According to an appeals court, which in 1998 overturned Jackson's own injunction against the bundle, Microsoft's tying "combines functionalities ... in a way that offers advantages unavailable if ... [the products are] bought separately and combined by the purchaser." The appeals court is higher up on the judicial food chain than Jackson's district court and it did have three judges examine the issue, as opposed to only one. But that was last year. His egregiously embarrassing computer literacy...
Boys will be boys - except in a growing number of courts, where they are men. A nationwide trend towards trying juveniles as adults was taken to its furthest frontier in recent days when a Michigan court heard the case of Nathaniel Abraham, accused of first-degree murder. Two years ago, the then-11-year-old Abraham borrowed a .22 caliber rifle, sat on a hillside in a Detroit suburb, and shot stranger Ronnie Greene, Jr. in the head. Abraham's lawyers claimed the shooting was accidental; they said he was taking potshots at some trees. The prosecution said he bragged...