Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airtight; no one was on the scene between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m., and the town house back door was not watched between midnight and 5 a.m., leaving the possibility that someone could have left the house unnoticed. The newspaper's initial story on Sunday failed to mention these lapses, but they were laid out in full in a follow-up story Monday...
...connection between the two). Secord sent the draft to North. But North told him someone in the White House -- he did not say who -- had rejected the draft as "too hard." Reagan's eventual speech, delivered last Nov. 13, was unconvincingly vague about the Iran deals and did not mention the contras...
...same time, we wonder about the ethics of covering the scandal. Is there not something offensive and invasive--not to mention unprofessional--about camping out in Miami bushes in order to determine whether 29-year-old models have missed their curfews...
...education. As a precocious 15-year-old who often told chums, "Be quiet; I'm thinking," he discovered that John Stuart Mill had read Plato by age ten. Forthwith Adler devoured Plato's works. With equal speed and assurance, he acquired his scorn for educational conventions, not to mention conventional educators. Then, as now, he found no use for grades: "What do they measure? The ability of some children to bone up for examinations." Given the power, he would abolish all marks in favor of general ratings (honors, pass, fair) arrived at by essay questions and oral examinations...
Dynamics sued, arguing that the Indiana statute interfered with interstate commerce and the Williams Act, which makes no mention of control shares and gives shareholders only 20 business days to consider tenders. But while the Indiana law placed some burdens on interstate commerce, said the court, it worked "for the better protection of the corporation's shareholders," and therefore was consonant with the 1968 federal statute...