Word: following
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excusing what I did, but I dispute theway the board is set up. It's not like a regularcourt--they don't follow any legal rules at all.They allowed two women to appear without beingsworn in or questioned. I was denied due process,"Schwartz said...
Anyone who shortchanges Uncle Sam at tax time can expect that, with virtually the same certainty as death, a dunning notice will follow. But when someone overpays the IRS, the reaction is sometimes silence. Thanks to Linda Johnson, an IRS examiner in Memphis, that will soon change. She complained to her Senator, Democrat Albert Gore, that when taxpayers in certain categories failed to subtract already withheld sums in calculating what they owe the Treasury, the IRS simply pocketed their surplus payment without telling them. Urging superiors to change the rules so these people will get refunds, she argued...
...lights went up, Nureyev strode onstage for a one-hour interview with Brown. The ebullient dancer talked candidly about his theatrical life, from his youth in the Soviet Union to his present role as artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet. While performances like that are hard acts to follow, TIME and N.Y.U. are already plotting a regular series of "Creative Edge" encores for next year...
...love hunting have much more to fear from the backlash of public opinion caused by the N.R.A.'s pigheadedness than we do from the Government. Sensible hunters see the need to follow the example of other civilized countries. All fireable guns should be licensed; delays and stringent checks should be built into their purchase, right across the board; and some types, including machine guns and semiautomatic assault weapons, should not be available to the civilian public at all. It is time, in this respect, that America enter the 20th century, since it is only a few years away from...
...ills the flesh is heir to, terrorism can strike very close to home. But in less affluent, less cushioned societies, people are beset by risks all the time, much worse than anything that most Americans must contend with, and life does not grind to a halt. Unless Americans follow suit, they risk becoming a society that imitates T.S. Eliot's aging, fearful hero J. Alfred Prufrock: they would not dare to eat a peach...