Word: manuals
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Judges have traditionally enjoyed such leeway in meting out jail terms that one prisoner could serve many times as long as another for a similar crime. Concerned about unfair -- and often overly lenient -- sentences, Congress in 1984 created the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which issued a manual that greatly restricts judges' discretion in sentencing 40,000 federal defendants a year. The new system, for crimes committed since Nov. 1, 1987, also abolished parole and sharply limited probation and time off for good behavior...
...futuristic young traveler who says I Want to Be an Astronaut (Crowell; $12.89). All the experiences are cataloged and exhibited: zero gravity, concentrated meals, a space walk, even the building of a factory in orbit. Once upon a time such adventures seemed the stuff of daydreams. This user-friendly manual makes them not only plausible but likely...
...needed suggestions on how to set up an Administration and order his priorities. For Bush, such promptings are old hat. For example, by the end of last week he had at least begun work on each of the four "key decisions" listed in the 68- page foreign policy transition manual prepared by the Center for Strategic and International Studies...
...March this year, the hydraulic system that operates the governor failed, and the turbine went into a runaway state, approaching dangerous speeds before it could be shut off with manual controls. Later in the spring, when rainfall was light, the plant was found to be in violation of the terms of its permit, which requires a certain minimum flow through the gorge. So much water was used in running the plant that the river itself was "dewatered," as one official put it, threatening the survival of fish. The plant's operation had to be halted until a new computer...
...working methods, the sense of filiation and descent that would breathe through his work for the rest of his life, the past feeding into the present and then out into the future. Degas, the synthesizer of Ingres and Delacroix, would point -- through the wild color fields and direct manual touch of his later years -- to a modernism that was not yet born...