Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offenses if released while awaiting trial. Critics of the speech also objected to the idea of permitting convicts to file habeas corpus petitions only for miscarriages of justice, and not for technical errors. One reason: such petitions account for only a small portion of a court's work load and most are promptly dismissed. Moreover, points out Howard Eisenberg, executive director of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association: "One person's technical err or is another person's miscarriage of justice...
...teaching fellow must be aware of the pressures that students face. Since students here are so strongly motivated, they will spend a tremendous amount of time on classwork, especially when they receive extensive feedback from their instructor. If the course load becomes too great, they may exhaust themselves or neglect other classwork...
...White House, the last load of the Carters' belongings was trucked out and the first load of the Reagans' rolled in. A number of eager Reagan aides also took up their posts. Five workers entered the Oval Office just as Dominador Julian, who has served every President since Eisenhower, was polishing the brass doorknob. They rearranged the furniture as Reagan had specified, moving the sofas into a conversation area. They also took on the Cabinet Room, replacing the portraits of Jefferson and Truman with those of Eisenhower and Coolidge. As Reagan explained to his Cabinet at their first...
...working long hours and closely watching the use of energy. McDaniel opens the shop himself at 7:30 each weekday morning and fires up the boiler that makes steam to press garments. By the tune a helper arrives at 8 a.m., McDaniel has already cleaned a 50-lb. load of clothes and hung them on hangers. His wife helps run the shop, working the counter and mending garments; and all three of their children have also worked there...
...dame of American art is Georgia O'Keeffe, 13 years Nevelson's senior; but O'Keeffe is reported to be almost blind and unable to paint any longer. Not so Nevelson, who sails into her ninth decade with undiminished vigor. The year 1980 brought her a load of work, commissions and exhibitions heavy enough to floor an artist half her age. It was her big year. In its wake, some 20 of her giant steel sculptures-scaled up from Nevelson's maquettes by the Lippincott works in North Haven, Conn., a foundry the size...