Word: fit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After concluding that 22-year-old Kerry Perkins was not fit to be placed in the "general inmate population," Middlesex County Superior Court Judge John P. Sullivan ordered police to return Perkins to Bridgewater State Hospital for 30 days...
...court has twice ordered that Perkins be sent to Bridgewater for psychiatric observation to determine if he is fit to stand trial...
Outraged students petitioned and protested. A lottery was proposed, but the new Dean of the College Charles P. Whitlock said such a process "doesn't fit into the Harvard way of doing things...
...much better than the odds that Breathalyzers will be installed in the Senate cloakroom. But his argument serves as a deft reminder that there are also Senators whose alcoholic and amorous behavior might not stand sustained scrutiny. There is just enough merit to Tower's who-is-fit-to-judge-whom bluster to accentuate the confusion over the proper standards of conduct for public officials...
Like a prima donna basking in applause, the personal computer has long held center stage in the electronics world. But now the limelight is shifting to a more glamorous cousin: the workstation. Small enough to fit on a desktop, the workstation may look like a personal computer, but it acts more like a powerful mainframe. Says Charles Boesenberg, executive vice president of MIPS Computer Systems, one of the many players in the fiercely competitive workstation market: "What we've done is put the power and capability of an ocean liner into a speedboat...