Word: informant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle civil rights and legal problems. Tackling questions from the floor, Law-and-Order Convert Hoffa advocated the death penalty for "mad dog" killers and kidnapers. But he came out against giving immunity to "stool pigeons" because that, in his view, is unfair to the people on whom they inform. "The result," said Jimmy gravely, "is not a trial of justice but a trial of injustice...
...nuclear reactions built by General Electric and Westinghouse, in which Harvard held a total of $26 million worth of stock. Wilson said Harvard should publicize the problem of the plants' safety even though no shareholder group was doing so, as part of the University's function, "to educate and inform people." The ACSR didn't dispute him, but in its first year it considered only matters where shareholders were sponsoring resolutions...
Reischauer said the U.S. has committed a "series of blunders" that has enhanced this uncertainty. America did not make clear how the "Nixon doctrine" would affect Japan, and did not inform them of its sudden plans for rapprochement with China, he said. Furthermore, he added, America did not take into consideration the impact of recent trade decisions on Japan...
...wends its way around the floor at about one mile per hour, the mailboy emits a soft beeping sound and a low-intensity blue light to alert unwary humans. If these warnings are ignored, infra-red sensors inform the robot when it is four inches away from a leg or a misplaced piece of furniture, and it comes to a stop after moving only another inch...
...group of Chilean leftists recently chose an improbable phrase to inform the rest of the world that they intend to remain in Chile and fight the military dictatorship instead of seeking asylum abroad. The Miristas, a Chilean New Left of students who left the universities to work with landless peasants and urban workers, said only that they would remain in Chile "to fulfill our obligations." They consciously chose a future of furtive meetings and constant fear which for some of them will surely culminate in electric-shock tortures and machine-gun executions...