Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This week, just days before the Shuttleworth trial begins, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in another Florida case, School Board of Nassau County v. Arline, that may have an important bearing on whether federal laws for the handicapped can be used to protect AIDS victims. The suit was brought by Gene Arline, who was dismissed in 1979 from her job as a third-grade teacher because she had tuberculosis, which can be passed on by sneezing or coughing and is far more easily transmitted than AIDS...
...earned him the sobriquet "Hamlet," proved more loyal to the military than to the President. In 1985 he filled in as armed forces chief while Ver faced conspiracy charges in the assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino, the current President's husband. Ramos and Enrile persuaded Marcos to hear the complaints of junior officers who wanted promotions based on merit, not favoritism. The talks came to nothing, but Ramos gained points with younger officers. Military reform is still high on his agenda. Western military observers in Manila say armed forces morale has been steadily climbing since Aquino took office. Nonetheless...
...when Paris Review editors send John Barth a check and additional questions to beef up a woefully brief interview, the author of the 800-page The Sot-Weed Factor returns the emolument with a curt note: "It doesn't displease me to hear that our interview will be perhaps the shortest one you've run. In fact, it's a bit shorter now than it was before (enclosed). Better not run it by me again...
...With a big t before the 'off.' Crisp as a knife." He is relentlessly attentive to the details that weave together the different parts: "Everybody, on the bottom of page 3, let's make that a dotted quarter note with an eighth rest, so we can hear the soprano entrance...
...Cornell's the worst place for a goalie to play," McEvoy said. "I can hear the crowd already...