Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Northern advance faltered. A Union private yelled, "I can't see!" as he stumbled and fell into the weeds. Another Northerner lost his nerve and began to run. His colonel drew a pistol and yelled, "You have two seconds to get back into that line or you will be dead." The coward slunk back...
...into business. In Holmes' words, the Constitution has ramifications that "could not have been foreseen completely by the most gifted of its begetters." How, for example, could James Madison have foreseen a wiretap? Therefore its precise phrases, and the possible intent by which they were formed in a world dead and gone, carry far less weight than the flow of legal history and the accumulated power of precedent. Says Justice William J. Brennan Jr.: "The ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time?" John Marshall, as usual, may have put it best...
...starting salary at O'Melveny & Myers, a Los Angeles-based firm with some 375 lawyers in offices on both coasts. Large firms appeal to clients in part by offering them expertise in minute and sometimes arcane legal specialties. Jason found himself assigned to municipal-bond tax law. "A total dead end," he now moans. Even worse, he maintains, at a large firm "associates do the absolute dregs of the work-- six months at a time in a warehouse looking through documents." Following an increasingly well-worn path, Jason fled his big firm in 1984 for a smaller shop...
...fighting over whether our children are alive or dead. We have a much more wide-ranging fight," she continues. "We are looking for justice, and all that that might mean: That people not forget. And besides that, the vindication of our children who after so many years were considered terrorists--this is our most important task...
...Plaza de Mayo hoping to be one of 10 people each day "permitted" to request information from the Interior Minstry about their missing children. They never got the news they sought. They still know nothing, other than what is obvious after nine years, that their children are dead (though even this they have trouble accepting). In a society in which the family is a sacred institution (opposing divorce is translated as "defending the family") and women still define themselves in terms of their success in bearing and rearing children, losing one's children means, literally, losing everything...