Word: informativeness
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...Forgive me, but I can't go to the courthouse," I said. "Have someone come tell me what happened, and I'll inform the press." There were now police posted at my door every day. The press would not be able to get through to me. I was not permitted to have a telephone in my apartment, and I could not use the phone booth near my house to call because it had been disconnected. Somehow I would have to find a phone...
Perhaps Reagan believes that in the last six months drug users have reproduced themselves at a rate previously unknown to mankind. If so, he would do well to consult the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an organization that would inform him that the use of almost every major drug has remained steady or has declined in the past two years...
...announce new sanctions this week, following a weekend meeting outside London of the Community's twelve foreign ministers. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's stalwart stance against sanctions appears to be easing. During a visit to Washington this week, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe is expected to inform U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz that Britain will join with the rest of the European Community to ban imports of South African coal, iron and steel. Preparations are also under way for U.S. and British officials to meet in an undisclosed location with Oliver Tambo, president of the outlawed African...
Legend has it that, many generations ago, a dean of the faculty took it upon himself to inform incoming freshmen that they were soon to become mere cogs in a vast and wondrous perpetual motion machine. The dean, Henry Rosovsky, is said to have told them, "You will be here for four years. I will be here for the rest of my life. The University will be here forever...
...respect it, like previous courts, accorded to the precedents set by predecessors. Thus the Warren rulings became the basis upon which the Burger Court built its reasonings. It left standing the chief emblem of the Warren era's expansion of defendants' rights, the Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights before interrogation. But it allowed police to dispense with Miranda warnings in emergency situations, weakened the rights of suspects during pretrial procedures and identified some circumstances in which illegally obtained evidence could be admitted in court...