Word: districters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...beach at a Vanity Fair photo shoot. But now it looks as if the good times are over for Monica Lewinsky. Her courtroom bid to enforce the immunity deal she made with Ken Starr back in January has failed. In a sealed decision leaked to reporters Thursday, Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson ruled the written suggestion -- immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony -- was not actually a binding agreement. That leaves Starr free to make his next move: Either call Lewinsky before the grand jury, or simply indict her for perjury...
According to Harry A. Hawkes, director of engineering and utilities, Harvard uses "district heating," which delivers steam from the Blackstone Station power plant in Cambridge through tunnels and buried lines to multiple buildings on campus...
Steam is an older method of heating that Harvard has used since the 1920s, but the College is by no means the only institution to maintain this seasoned process. According to Morris A. Pierce, district energy historian and energy manager for the University of Rochester, a recent census by the Department of Energy found more than 30,000 district heating systems in the United States and thousands more worldwide...
...hook, and its competitors can breathe easier too. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman yesterday dismissed the service provider as a codefendant in presidential adviser Sidney Blumenthal?s $30 million libel suit against Matt Drudge -- on the grounds that the 1996 Communications Decency Act absolves ISPs from responsibility for content supplied by third parties. "Whether wisely or not, [Congress] made the legislative judgment to effectively immunize providers of interactive computer services from civil liability... with respect to material disseminated by them but created by others," wrote Judge Friedman...
...feel that I have experience," Thompson says. "As the incumbent, I've been over the district back and forth...