Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet Jill Eisenstadt, however, is to be underwhelmed, and this is not an insult. She seems astonishingly normal and low-key, the kind of person who claims she previously couldn't even answer questions at interviews. Despite her Irish-looking face, she says, "I'm really Jewish, even though I don't look...
...want you to be somebody, and you can if you try . . . Pick up that phone and call now!" So exhorted the smiling face in the newspaper ad for a nationwide chain of vocational schools. Rarely has such an ordinary pitch received so much attention, but then this was no ordinary pitchman: it was Presidential Hopeful Jesse Jackson. The message, self-improvement through education, was vintage Jackson. The medium was a blitz of commercial advertisements for which Jackson was to receive an undisclosed payment...
...child-support payments. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Myerson, Gabel and Capasso on counts of conspiracy, mail fraud and bribery. Myerson, 63, who was also charged with obstruction of justice, could receive 30 years and fines of $513,000. Capasso, 45, and Gabel, 74, could each face a 25-year term and $263,000 in fines...
Their lawyers face a formidable task: justifiable homicide is difficult to prove. Defense attorneys must first convince juries that severe abuse took place, then demonstrate why the defendants felt they had no other options. Pierson, a quiet and somewhat immature teenager, says her 240-lb. father began sexually abusing her when she was about eleven, progressing until he was having sexual intercourse with her as often as three times a day. She claimed that he even molested her in the car on the way to the hospital to visit her mother, who died in 1985. "It was awful," she says...
...Green came to Ohiri Field today to face an angry Harvard squad which has not lost since that game...