Word: expanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bill of goods on prisons, just like it's been given a distorted, negative picture of recidivism and parole. Most of the guys in this prison will never return to Angola, I can tell you that from being here. And parole can and does work, and I would expand it. I'd much rather pay for parole officers to supervise nondangerous people than build $100,000 cells...
...conflict first flared at an April board meeting when Robert, who was becoming eager to succeed his father as Dart chairman, clashed with him over plans to expand a single store. While Herbert wanted to increase the company's Total Beverage liquor operations, Robert pointed out that the only existing Total outlet was operating at a loss. The split widened in May when Gloria Haft, 66, defended her son at a Crown Books meeting and beseeched her husband to end the quarrel...
...five-working-day waiting period for gun purchases. Other provisions would send young offenders to military-style boot camps instead of prison. Clinton would limit the ability of those convicted of capital crimes to file "habeas corpus" appeals endlessly through the federal courts, and at the same time expand to 47 the number of crimes subject to the death penalty...
Unfortunately, the climax and finale of the piece did not expand the whole but only continued it in predictable progression. The horns seemed to disappear by the end of their solos, and the bells did not really blend into the full landscape of the climax. Mehta later proved that the Israel Philharmonic was capable of true force, but here the power of a Brahms finale, even of such a relatively inconsequential piece, was noticeably lacking...
Gomes told the Observer that his book will deal partially with homosexuality. The minister said he will also try to expand on strict interpretations of the Bible favored by what he calls "religious fundamentalists...