Word: pleasingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weeks before the start of a sedition trial of seven political opponents of Taiwan's one-party regime, human rights activists predicted that the hearing would be a travesty of justice. Leading U.S. law professors, scholars and writers fired off protests and pleas for leniency to Taiwanese President Chiang...
As word of interferon spreads, doctors are bracing for an onslaught of pleas from cancer victims and their families. Almost every request will be rejected. IF is still quite rare; in the U.S., only a few hundred patients have received it, most of them for short intervals. All testing so...
Life inside the embassy compound, meanwhile, appeared to be settling into an uneasy routine. Among the ambassadors, all were said to be standing up well under the pressure, except one: Venezuela's Virgilio Lovera, 63, a gregarious political appointee diplomat who, at one point last week, was treated by...
The Justice Department has a roster of some 18,000 federal cons who, all told, owe about $80 million in fines and bail bond forfeitures. Some of the deadbeats, among them many Prohibition moonshiners, are dead; others are in prison, untraceable, or truly too poor to pay (tightlipped Watergate Burglar...
Spector, 39, has been called a genius, often by himself. In a recording studio, he throws tantrums as easily as other producers turn dials, and hurls invective like a rock-'n'-roll redraft of Erich von Stroheim. His excesses of style and manner are legend, and some call...