Word: objections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some critics object that most security problems occur not through sexual blackmail but bribery. Others protest that the new rules may violate civil liberties. Homosexuals will be eligible to get or retain clearances, says a Pentagon spokesman, if there is no threat of blackmail or vulnerability to coercion...
...that interferes with the lawful functioning of Government, even if the plot did not result in any other provable crime. People who play widely varying roles in a conspiracy can be judged equally guilty, and only one defendant need be 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...
...safeguard against predators, the cicadas usually first crawl out of the ground after sunset. Their main defense, though, may be sheer numbers: birds, raccoons and skunks can crunch up only so many insects. After climbing the nearest vertical object -- a tree or post, for example -- the insects take their last step toward adulthood. They hook their needle-like claws into the surface, arch their backs to break their skin and then wiggle free. A day later they are ready to fly away. All of this is merely a prelude to courtship, with the male cicadas seeking to attract mates with...
...events was the shot put. For the first several days of preparation before the meet I would throw the hefty steel object like a baseball until I was told it was against the rules...
...University of Massachusetts in Amherst, mathematicians plot complex equations on a computer-graphics terminal, which translates the numbers and symbols into form and color. Watching a curving, perforated object take form on the screen, the mathematicians gradually become convinced that they have produced a new shape with a jawbreaking name: a complete embedded minimal surface with finite topology. Previously only three such shapes were known to exist; topologists have sought and speculated about a fourth for two centuries, but until this moment it has never been proved to exist. The imagery demonstrates that there are an infinite number of such...