Word: minored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...founder's 40 or so living descendants, about a dozen work at Hearst, but most of them hold relatively minor jobs. John Hearst Jr. is an editor of Motor Boating & Sailing, while Anne is an editor at Town & Country. The Examiner's Will Hearst, one of the company's stars, is considered a candidate to run the company, but he denies that ambition and praises Bennack. "Having a Hearst in charge could make things more divisive within the family," he says...
Blair just finished up his rookie campaign with the Salt Lake City Golden Eagles, the International Hockey League (IHL) minor league franchise of the Calgary Flames. A week ago, the Eagles closed out an improbable march to the Turner Cup with a 7-3 triumph over defending champion Muskegon, winning the series four games...
Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh has already used that provision to convict two minor Iran-contra figures. Fund Raisers Carl Channell and Richard Miller have pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of tax money; the pair solicited supposedly deductible contributions for the entirely nondeductible purpose of buying weapons for the contras. In negotiations with congressional investigating committees, Walsh has left no doubt that conspiracy is the main charge he intends to bring against many more prominent people. Says a source close to Walsh's investigation: "Conspiracy could take in the whole picture." That was pretty much...
...shown to have committed "any act to effect the object of the conspiracy." Thus the prosecutor does not have to focus on the narrow specifics of allegedly illegal acts; he can lay a long, complex story before the jury in its entirety. He can use the testimony of minor conspirators to convict more important figures; Channell and Miller have already named Oliver North as their co-conspirator. And in conspiracy cases a jury can weigh hearsay evidence...
Most people regard a census as a minor nuisance. But in West Germany a national census scheduled to be completed on May 25 has become a cause for protest. The pro-environment Green Party, which won 8.3% of the vote in this winter's parliamentary elections, is leading a census-boycott movement under the slogan ONLY SHEEP ARE COUNTED...