Word: jerseyed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more hockey players from the vaunted Red Army team resigned their commissions last week. By the grace of a fresh understanding between Moscow and the National Hockey League, stars Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov are now free to negotiate with the teams that drafted them: the New Jersey Devils, Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames (which already employs Sergei Priakin). Only one Soviet applicant has felt the need to defect. Alexander Mogilny saw Buffalo and just couldn't live anywhere else. Shrugging everything off, Soviet authorities have invited the Flames and the Washington Capitals to play a revolutionary series...
Horror stories regularly fill court dockets. In a New York federal court, a translated undercover wire quotes a Cuban defendant: "I don't even have the ten kilos." The defendant means kilos of currency (Cuban cents), but the translated statement suggests kilograms of drugs. In a New Jersey homicide trial, the prosecutor asks whether the testimony of a witness is lengthier than the translation. "Yes," responds the Polish interpreter, "but everything else was not important...
Some jurisdictions are trying to make improvements. New York and New Jersey are broadening their testing and sending their interpreters to school for further training. The Federal Government is working on new requirements for Navajo and Haitian-Creole interpreters. And in Los Angeles a federal lawsuit is demanding certified interpreters in immigration proceedings. For now, $ however, the quality of court interpreting around the country depends on the luck of the draw...
...joke was on the 15,000 screaming Minnesotans and their beloved Golden Gophers. Peter Ciavaglia mugged Krayer by the far boards. Coach Bill Cleary leaped on to the ice looking for the first player in a Harvard jersey. ESPN's cameras caught him first, conducted its post-game interview and then let Cleary dance all over...
...waste. Even if encouraged to recycle plastic waste, many citizens find it too much trouble to sort through their garbage, sifting out the plastic peanut-butter jars and toothpaste tubes from other debris. Curbside collection -- forcing citizens to separate recyclable garbage -- is what some communities demand. Three states, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Florida, require residents to sort their garbage for collection...