Word: messe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burstein, who represented a Long Island district in the New York State Senate before she took her current post, said her participation in the civil rights protests of the sixties affected her for life. She added, however, "I was the only person to mess however, "I was the only person to miss Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream...
...questions surrounding the death penalty: 1) Does it deter? and 2) Is it moral? But the great importance of the issue is symbolic. The argument would tend to abate if the courts worked better at imposing noncapital penalties. On the other hand, restoring capital punishment would produce a moral mess. It would open the U.S. further to charges of racism and hypocrisy; every time a black man was executed in Alabama, the Soviets would feel further justified-by whatever false comparisons-in the conduct of their own Gulags. Not that they need such justification. More important than this propaganda effect...
Like any other big construction project, the subway extension promises to be a big mess--"five miserable years of it," as officials in the Harvard Planning Office predict. But Harvard has its own committee to coordinate plans with the MBTA, and even though most Harvard students won't be riding the RedLine to Alewife, this process will have a big effect on their lives...
...York's Governor Hugh Carey has appointed a committee, composed of state health, environmental and transportation officials, to look into mopping up the mess and helping those affected by it to relocate. Carey and Democratic Representative John LaFalce are also seeking federal help...
...think we ought to risk it, Johnnie? I ain't so sure I want to mess with Big Tuna...