Word: finney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paul "Red" Casey fought back from a first period knockdown to take a split decision over Bob Finney in the round of 16 action of the New England Golden Gloves Tournament yesterday in Lowell, Mass...
...your article on prison life, you mention the 1978 Supreme Court decision Hutto vs. Finney, 'involving sickeningly bad conditions in Arkansas." In that case the Arkansas system was the first to be declared unconstitutional. This past August the U.S. district court, citing "important and significant achievement," ended the 13-year litigation over the conditions in the Arkansas department of correction...
...years, a conservative Supreme Court affirmed, and then cautiously circumscribed, the range of prison conditions deemed unconstitutional, and the discretion of lower federal judges to order remedies. In its 1976 decision in the Texas case Estelle vs. Gamble, and even more powerfully two years later in Hutto vs. Finney, a case involving sickeningly bad conditions in Arkansas, the Supreme Court effectively reversed the two-century policy of keeping prisons virtually immune from judicial intervention. In last year's Rhodes vs. Chapman, however, the Justices substantially narrowed the circumstances under which a court may order prison improvements...
...last week came when Industrialist Henryk de Kwiatkowski announced that his Belmont Stakes winner, Conquistador Cielo, had been syndicated to a group of breeders for $36.4 million, making him the most expensive horse in history. Meanwhile, all week long, a favored few took their reserved seats inside Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion and fascinated onlookers gathered before outdoor monitors to view the auctions of untried yearlings for stratospheric sums. In one wild bidding session, a world-record filly price of $2.1 million was paid for a daughter of The Minstrel. After four tense evenings, traders had ponied up $36.1 million...
...parent these days. The epidemic of tenderness is spreading as quickly on the West Coast as gypsy moths on the East. The ever-vulnerable Dustin Hoffman fell first, but after a while the infection gained enough strength to attack more formidable opponents, like Henry Fonda and Albert Finney. The latest victim: tough guy-turned-Pop, Al Pacino. Michael Corleone is now coddling children instead of pistols...