Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shooting of a Houston restaurant manager and the wounding of his wife, devoured a final meal of French toast, sausage, eggs, French fries and six brownies. Then he was led into the baby- blue death chamber and spread-eagled on a gray gurney. He was tied down with white leather straps and ace bandages. As a dozen state officials and reporters watched, Wayne Scott, the prison system's deputy operations chief, appeared in a doorway and intoned, "Warden, you may proceed." A microphone was lowered and the condemned man offered a brief prayer as his last statement. Then the executioner...
...sole charter of the judicial branch, by contrast, was (and in theory-remains) to interpret the law in a political vacuum, outside the purview of such pesky political concerns as lobbyists or voters. Judges are not policy-makers. They are professional interpreters invested with the challenge of studying leather-bound volumes, not the latest Gallup poll...
...each of the four defendants on all charges in connection with the bombing. The prosecution called the bombing the greatest terrorist attack ever to take place on American soil. The case, however, did not achieve the | pyrotechnics of the crime. For five months, the jury members twisted in their leather swivel chairs while the government paraded 207 witnesses and more than 1,000 exhibits before them. Only once or twice did proceedings break the staid atmosphere, most notably when a prosecution witness, asked to identify two suspects, pointed to members of the jury...
...problem lies with UMS, because it wasn't always like this. As recently as spring of 1992, first-years could count on getting clothing from J. Crew or Leather World on time, for the U.S. Postal Service handled the delivery...
Societies in Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia are all funding university efforts to study emu nutrition, reproduction, and health. Breeders hope to eventually make emus a commercially viable source of leather, jewelry, and meat...