Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defense lawyers quickly launched a legal assault against the new system. The result was chaos, with 158 federal judges declaring the arrangement unconstitutional and 116 ruling it to be proper. No one could tell what penalties would be imposed or whether they would stick. Moving briskly to end the confusion, the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the commission and its rules by a vote...
...South Carolina, the commission's chairman. The result, he said, will be "more uniform, fair and truthful sentences." The impact will reach far beyond the several thousand federal defendants who must now be resentenced. The new system means stiffer penalties for white-collar crimes, 87% of which currently end in probation...
When the 404 members of the Democratic National Committee vote on Feb. 10, more will be at stake than replacing Paul Kirk as their top technician. Ironically, Brown could end up rivaling Jesse Jackson as America's pre-eminent black leader and thus steal some thunder from the man whose campaign he helped manage and whose specter has hovered over this contest. Brown would also become, for better or worse, a symbol of his party: either an embodiment of the commitment to fairness and equality that has been at the heart of the Democrats' creed or, from another viewpoint...
...epidemic has progressed more or less as the experts expected. New cases increased from about 22,000 in 1987 to 32,000 in 1988. Most of these victims picked up the virus years ago, before the dangers of AIDS became known. The Public Health Service forecasts that by the end of 1992, 365,000 Americans will have come down with AIDS, and 263,000 of these will have died...
Having been used only twice, within a four-day period nearly 44 years ago at the end of World War II, the Bomb is prone to mind-numbing abstraction. The TV series uses grainy, black-and-white newsreels to make landmark events feel as though they happened in the real world and epigrammatic statements sound as though they were said by real people. One of many moments that make War and Peace television at its best: a 1946 United Nations disarmament conference is seen considering a U.S. plan for international controls that would prevent the Soviet Union from developing...