Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What would have happened had you not declared martial law in December...
Ovitz, 43, has pursued power with the fierce concentration of a student of aikido, the Japanese martial art that he practices each dawn. "He's an economic samurai," says a colleague. Starting in 1975, when he and four young colleagues left the William Morris Agency to form their own firm, Ovitz has managed to assemble the hottest stable in town. Creative Artists Agency has a roster of 675 clients ranging from superstars Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone and Madonna to directors Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese...
...dystopias of the century in Brave New World and 1984. Veteran teachers rhapsodize about a kind of Golden Age of liberality and modernity: of the 56 students taking the Oxford Entrance Examinations last month, 18 were specialists in natural sciences (as against five in classics). There is even a martial-arts room in the new Olympic-standard gym -- to toughen, no doubt, the fiber of future powers on and off the Wall...
With the gulf crisis adding to anxiety over gasoline prices, the little cars may become more attractive than ever. This year a dozen French VSP manufacturers expect to sell as many as 15,000 of them. Martial Howa of Aixam Automobiles, a manufacturer in the southeastern French town of Aix-les-Bains, estimates that the market will grow 40% in the next two years. "Soon it will not be mostly a French phenomenon," he says. "Already we're exporting 15% of the 5,000 units we produce each year to Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Greece...
Jurors are ordinary citizens, but when they decide a case they take on an extraordinary responsibility. The American legal system gives juries a great deal of power and rightfully so. But juries, like judges and courts martial, make mistakes. They can be intimidated, misunderstand the law or act out of prejudice rather than on the facts introduced in court...