Word: louisiana
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...master a new way of typing. The DataHand, developed by Industrial Innovations in Scottsdale, Arizona, abandons conventional keys altogether, replacing them with padded handrests and little finger wells. Each finger can produce five different characters by pressing forward, back, left, right or straight down. Infogrip, Inc., of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, goes one step further. It makes a - seven-key "chordic" keypad that works like a court stenographer's machine: the operator presses a different combination of keys to produce each letter...
...ended that way once before, but after several soap-opera twists, the couple had remarried in 1967.) King lost his TV and radio shows, his job with the Dolphins and his newspaper column. To make ends meet he did some free-lance radio work and later moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, where he was a p.r. man for the local racetrack and did play-by-play for the old World Football League's Shreveport Steamer...
...Louisiana's stringent law prohibiting most abortions would send doctors who perform them illegally to jail for up to 10 years. Last week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans struck down the law. Louisiana's attorney general, Richard Ieyoub, conceded that Louisiana "will have some difficulty" in defending its law if the state decides to appeal it to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a Pennsylvania case in June, the Supreme Court ruled out any restrictions that placed an "undue burden" on a woman seeking an abortion...
Never has there been a politician so candid about his own mendacity as Earl Long, the fabled drinking, carousing and hog-hunting 1950s Governor of Louisiana (hint: Paul Newman played him in Blaze). After one election, Long went back on a campaign promise in a big way. When a delegation of betrayed supporters showed up in Baton Rouge to protest, the Governor refused to see them. "What will I tell them?" asked a desperate aide. Long's immortal response: "Tell them I lied...
When the French put a huge piece of real estate called Louisiana on the market in 1803, Jefferson, without seeking Congressional approval, exceeded and thus expanded his executive authority to make the purchase...