Word: dock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...serve its research laboratories, the EQRF will feature a variety of floor layouts, including open laboratories as well as central work spaces. An animal facility will be located in the basement for investigators with rodents protected from biological contamination. A truck dock, central receiving area and mail room will also be located in the basement...
Those in the dock were not the only ones squirming through the kangaroo sessions. The Bush Administration was chafing too, embarrassed by the brutish behavior of a regime that it had risked so much to restore to power. Embracing a government as undemocratic as Kuwait's was awkward from the outset, but expectations were high that the liberated country would march briskly toward liberalization. Instead, the ruling band of brothers and cousins that runs the country seems to have settled comfortably into its old habits...
...their driver's licenses, and children may have developed habits that are distressing to the returning parent. The Navy, which flies teams of mental-health workers to ships coming back from the gulf, counsels patience and tolerance. "We tell them that if their teenager shows up on the dock with long hair and a ring in one ear, that isn't the time to say, 'Hey, what happened to you,' " notes Falk. Many children will have formed deeper bonds with the parent who remained at home and become accustomed, for instance, to the way Dad reads the bedtime story. Sleeping...
Whatever the legalities, unless the Baghdad regime is overthrown, it is unlikely that Saddam and his top henchmen will be placed in the dock. Some jurists suggest they should be tried anyway, in absentia. But even without that dramatic event, the meticulous documenting of atrocities and the punishment of Iraqis who carried out their superiors' most unconscionable orders would serve a deterrent purpose and underscore the justice of the allied cause. "The idea of a trial would be to show the Arabs that Saddam Hussein is not the great savior," says Howard Levie, professor emeritus of law at St. Louis...
...lights suddenly brightened, and Chen Ziming, 38, one of China's leading dissidents, was led in. Stepping into the dock, he looked up at the gallery -- and into the eyes of his mother and his sister. It had been more than a year since they had seen him. For the next five hours, prosecutors harangued Chen as a counter-revolutionary who had financed the 1989 student rebellion in Tiananmen Square. Despite his 40-min. rebuttal, the trial moved inexorably to its verdict: guilty, with a sentence of 13 years in prison...