Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As for the allegation that the court is soft on crime, her backers claim it has sided with the prosecution 90% of the time. Then why has no execution yet taken place in California during her tenure? Bird blames the fuzzy language of the state's 1978 death-penalty initiative...
But engineering elegance cannot mask what may turn out to be fatal problems in conception and execution. Jobs' original idea was to use mass-production techniques to make the power of $50,000 computer "workstations" like those used by top engineers and industrial designers available to anyone for the cost...
At least the pastel picnic tables that, as the third project, still dot the Quad do serve some useful purpose, but they too are little more than burlesque--thanks to Office for the Arts Director Myra Mayman's infamous observation about picnic tables: "Either you've sat on them or...
Roh thus became the first South Korean chief executive to lose majority control over the National Assembly since the country became a republic four decades ago. The Democratic Justice Party won only 125 of the legislature's 299 seats, leaving it 25 votes short of a majority. Clearly shaken by...
In other paintings of fires, abandoned industrial plants and refineries belching out their pollutants under a Stygian sky, the emotive content of the image (industry as Pandemonium) is at odds with the stolid execution. Few techniques could be less suited to depicting what is fugitive and mobile, like fire and...