Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Attleboro--just 15 minutes from the capital at 3:45. After the bus driver had spent a half hour attempting to fix the problem, he and head coach Bob Scalise walked off seeking help. About an hour later--but before Scalise got back--a commercial bus line, the Providence Express, picked up the women...
DURING THE COURSE of 20 minutes with Barbara Walters last year, Burt Reynolds was asked what it was that he wanted most. He paused for a moment, knowing the answer but searching for the words that could best express his greatest desire...
Antulay had set up trust funds designed to improve roads, build post offices, help jobless youths, the disabled and the poor. One fund was called the Indira Gandhi Pratibha Pratishthan (talent trust) to "encourage talented people in the fields of literature and the fine arts." The anti-Gandhi Indian Express claims that Antulay solicited money for the trust funds from businesses by granting building permits and other licenses, and by rewarding donors with scarce supplies of such state-controlled commodities as industrial alcohol and cement...
...called Kamali, and to break clean with the past she settled on the name OMO for her sleek, new, triple-level boutique.) She rarely travels, often works until midnight and has not taken a day off in months. "I know I'm intense," she says, "but I express humor in my clothes. I'm even trying to find a Mel Brooks to spend the rest of my life with...
...Congress. In this, the high court acquiesced, ruling in 1869: "We are not at liberty to inquire into the motives of the legislature. We can only examine into its power under the Constitution; and the power to make exceptions to the appellate jurisdiction of this court is given by express words." This remains the sole case in which Congress successfully imposed "exceptions" on the high court. Only three years later, the court did not hesitate to strike down a congressional effort to limit its jurisdiction over cases involving property claims made by litigants who were pardoned after the Civil...