Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...psyche as questions surrounding capital punishment. Thus reaction across the country last week was swift and in some quarters downright horrified when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that crimes by some juveniles and mentally retarded people may be punishable by death. By a 5-to-4 vote, the high court ruled in a pair of decisions that the constitutional ban on "cruel and unusual punishments" does not forbid the execution of youths who commit crimes at 16 or 17 years of age, nor does it automatically prohibit death sentences for the retarded. "By executing the retarded and people who aren...
...father's death at age 54. Surgery to remove a cancer-infected lung disclosed that the disease had spread, inoperably. Reynolds, then a junior at Duke University, was at his bedside, holding the "warm, dead flesh" of Will's wrist, when the end came. He heard "a high moan, an eerie whistle." As Will's head pressed deep into the pillows, "the eyes stayed shut but the skin of his face turned purple, and the hard wave rolled downward from mind to feet. It was plainly as real and irresistible as what drives the surf...
...same creative freedom that goes with writing a novel." The series' 50,000 fans are in an uproar. Says Stephen Kelleher, manager of Big Apple Comics in New York ; City: "Swamp Thing was only meeting Jesus. It's not like they were going to sing show tunes or perform high jinks...
Many companies cherish their place in the urban skyline, but quite a few others want to escape the high rents and downtown hassles. Sears said last week it will move the company's merchandising division, which has 6,000 employees, from the landmark Sears Tower in Chicago's Loop to a planned office complex in suburban Hoffman Estates (pop. 44,761). Dozens of cities and states had been trying to lure Sears, but Illinois and Hoffman Estates prevailed with a package of incentives worth $241 million...
Even Indian tribes are raking in money by conducting legal gambling. Congress last fall passed a law making it easier for Indians on reservations to institute any type of gambling that is legal in the states where the % reservations are located. The most popular reservation game is high-stakes bingo. Near Franklin, La., 1,200 people every Saturday night jam into a $2 million bingo hall built last September on the Chitimacha Indian Reservation; that is four times the number of Indians living on the reservation. Each player pays a $45 admission fee and gets twelve bingo cards. The payoff...