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That the second software system still is not operative four and one-half months after the deadline for its final testing because of careless execution of the contract with the software company and sloppy tailoring of the software program at OIT;

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Challenging Harvard's top dogs | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

Military and civilian courts immediately began applying the amnesty, and by week's end some 100 prisoners had been freed. How many more will win release depends on how individual judges interpret the decree's terms. The amnesty is considerably broader than a limited pardon granted by Juan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Dismantling the Dictatorship | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

Justice Thurgood Marshall opposes execution because it is "a total denial of human dignity and worth." It is not executing the criminal that denies dignity and worth, but the criminal himself, by his commission of the offense.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 2, 1976 | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Why don't the Israelis sentence the terrorists in their jails to execution if and when terrorists kidnap new hostages? This would render any future kidnaping counterproductive.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 2, 1976 | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Throat cutting has become the ritual form of execution, and each side has settled on a favorite dumping ground for victims. In the Moslem zone of Beirut, for instance, one busy repository is a murky space beneath a highway overpass. Its counterpart on the Christian side is a bridge 150...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Battle Notes: Land of the $25 Kill | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

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