Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic problem is simple Though White himself seems to have kept his own hands clean, the leaders of his machine, with his apparent approval have regularly engaged in extortion and misuse of city resources. The latter has generally involved petty acts aimed at political foes Last winter, for instance, city snow plows frequently cleared every street in certain neighborhoods, except those where White's opponents in the state legislature lived (State Rep Jim Brett of Dorchester, who opposed White's "Tregor" funding bill for Boston called City Hall anonymously to complain the response "Call your rep and tell...
...slow slicing away of bits of the body. A 19th century French traveler described an excruciating method in India during the rule of the rajahs: "The culprit, bound hand and foot, is fastened by a long cord, passed round his waist, to the elephant's hind leg. The latter is urged into a rapid trot through the streets of the city, and every step gives the cord a violent jerk, which makes the body of the condemned wretch bound on the pavement . . . Then his head is placed upon a stone, and the elephant executioner crushes it beneath his enormous...
...take 20 years for cancer to show up in women taking the drug. He is joined in his concerns by a number of other government scientists and by such organizations as Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader's Health Research Group and the National Women's Health Network. The latter group has collected about 150 case histories of women who claim to have suffered ill effects from taking Depo-Provera and, according to Director Belita Cowan, it has plans to sue Upjohn...
...office, he glances out his window to watch young students playing basketball; when Sirkowski exercises in his office, he watches a baseball game on television. But ultimately, That Championship Season rests upon its screenplay (adapted by Miller from his play) and its actors. In several instances, the latter salvage the former...
...anxious over such a minor point. After, all, isn't this Fair Harvard--where feminist Betty Friedan is a "Fellow" at the IOP, and the Straus Cup competition includes one sport named "Volleyball" and another named "Women's Volleyball" (with fewer points going to the winner of the latter)? Where women trying to study Women's Studies as a Special Concentration are expected to "prove their seriousness" by overcoming obstacles designed to rival the Twelve Labors of Hercules...