Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JURY. The nearly instant decision after nine months of trial and what prosecutor Clark described as a "mountain of evidence" was the ultimate "embarrassment," in Kamisar's view. "The 12 smartest people who ever lived couldn't have sorted through the evidence and evaluated it in four hours," he declares. "I have to accept the verdict, but I don't have to respect the jury that rendered it because of their unseemly haste. They could at least have stayed in deliberations for nine hours--one hour for each of the million dollars it cost to prosecute the case...
Apparently, the purpose of the protest was to argue that those who profess views different from their own, those who do not support all of the "lifestyles" and "values" of the sixties, those who believe there are higher modes in life than pursuit of instant gratification, have no place here...
...been four months since we last danced the technology tango on these pages. For many of us, the summer has gone by like a fleeting instant...
Novotna theorized, somewhat sourly, that the reason Seles has been able to come back so quickly is because she has a predominantly baseline game. "If she had an all-around game like Steffi's or mine, it would take her longer," said Novotna. Some observers feel Seles' instant success is an indictment of the quality of play on the women's tour. But Seles is only picking up where she left off. At 19, she had already won eight Grand Slam tournaments, and of the 10 she missed, Graf won six. During her sabbatical, Seles would watch highlights...
...G.O.P. ticket, is to encounter a master of animated caution. He is charismatic and focused. His thoughts are ordered and formed in complete sentences--a truly dying art. His entire aspect is commanding and confident. He can appear compassionate and tough, sober and humorous in the same instant. But for all his brilliance as a performer, what Powell says as he begins a nationwide swing ostensibly designed only to pitch his memoirs (for which Random House has reportedly paid him $6 million) is so essentially noncommittal and even vacuous that one reaches back to an earlier soldier-politician for instruction...