Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flying the victims' bodies back to the U.S. and preparing them for burial. In an attempt to determine roughly how much money is at stake, the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco has subpoenaed bank records and summoned 17 Peoples Temple survivors for questioning by a grand jury...
...Middle Kingdom. Peking's People's Daily has just completed a series of articles arguing that if the Four Modernizations are to be achieved, China needs new commercial, criminal and civil codes. The official news agency has reported that quasi-independent "procuratorates," vaguely similar to U.S. grand juries, have been re-established throughout China. These bodies were abolished during the Cultural Revolution-the heyday of Mao's effort to create a society in which the only law was his word...
...review that ruling does not affect similar cases in other states, but it leaves reporters everywhere guessing about the risk of fighting subpoenas. In Branzburg vs. Hayes (1972), the leading pronouncement on the subject, the Justices ruled 5 to 4 that reporters could not refuse to testify before a grand jury. The court did suggest, however, that states could enact "shield" laws to protect a reporter's sources and notes. New Jersey and 25 other states have them. In Farber's case, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided that the shield law "must yield," because it came into...
...Burgundian city of Beaune. Technically, it is a charity sale: for the past 127 years, the auction has been the principal source of support for the Hospices de Beaune, a hospital that has been in continuous operation since 1443. In practice, the sale of wine from its Premier and Grand Cru vineyards is a closely watched price barometer for all Burgundies. At this year's auction, in a hall bedecked with medieval tapestries, the needle shifted to "stormy" as 362 pièces (a pièce is the equivalent of 25 cases of twelve bottles each...
...prologue promised opera on a grand scale. An eerie rumble of double basses and tympani built in the pit. Then a beam of light stabbed down onto the blackened stage, illuminating the figure of the blind poet Milton (Arnold Moss). "Hail, holy light!" he intoned. The choir of black-robed, monklike figures, clustered on either side of the stage in two four-tiered towers, burst forth in a great invocation: "What in us is dark/ Illumine...