Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scoreboard read "0-0" as the teams lined up for the opening face-off Saturday night, but the SRO crowd and the players alike saw a "7" in the Harvard box and a "1" in the Visitors...
...part, Dole's hesitation stems from his Midwestern reserve. With his vibrant voice, handsome face and extraordinary energy, he can dominate a large room with an aura of apparent self-confidence, but in one-on-one conversations he is surprisingly guarded. He often uses one-liners to deflect questions he does not want to answer. When he forgoes the quips, his replies are carefully phrased to neutralize any hint of boastfulness. He seldom initiates talk about the broken neck and shattered shoulder he suffered in combat with the Germans in Italy's Po Valley in 1945. But if pressed...
...case before the court involved Luz Marina Cardoza-Fonseca, 38, a Nicaraguan who now lives in Nevada. Cardoza-Fonseca unsuccessfully claimed before theINS that if forced to return, she would face torture because her brother is a former Sandinista who was imprisoned and tortured by his onetime comrades before he escaped to the U.S. Justice Stevens upheld a lower-court ruling that the INS must reconsider her case using the more lenient standard. In a dissent joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White, Lewis Powell maintained it was reasonable for the INS to find no practical distinction between...
...lawmakers and the prosecutor agree on how to extract the testimony: grant limited immunity, which would protect Poindexter and North from being prosecuted on the basis of their statements. If they then refused to talk, they could face imprisonment for contempt of Congress. But the Senate and Walsh disagree over timing: the Senators want to expedite their Iranscam hearings. Walsh has asked that immunity be delayed for at least 90 days to give him time to build a case to indict Poindexter and North...
Minnesota opened the scoring 14 minutes into the game when Snuggerud fired from the left face-off circle and beat BC goalie Davie Littman to the far corner...