Word: poolfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unpredictability of the game is what's killing you right now. Because you have, whether the IRS likes it or not, entered a tournament pool. And you plan to take home the winnings this year...
...before you go jumping into your pool, here's a little safety advice...
...featured twice over the past year on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and on episodes of 60 Minutes. For all of Lott's passion for tort reform, one of the nation's wealthiest tormentors of tobacco companies is his brother-in-law Dick Scruggs, beside whose pool the majority leader can often be found, sipping a Coke and working his cell phone, whenever the Senate is out and the weather is warm...
...Jury-pool contamination is the biggest problem created by the Morning News story. Says Gerald Shargel, a defense lawyer in New York City: "There's a potential for grave damage here. There's apparently no witness that puts McVeigh in Oklahoma City on the morning of the bombing." Says Peter Arenella, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles: "Just a report of this is extremely prejudicial to McVeigh's right to a fair trial. Even if the press reports all its caveats, the people still remember this news." When he spoke to TIME in March 1996, McVeigh...
...human gene pool can be seen as a sort of species-wide natural resource, it's only sensible for the rarest of those genes to be husbanded most carefully, preserved so that every generation may enjoy their benefits. Even the most ardent egalitarians would find it hard to object to an Einstein appearing every 50 years or a Chopin every century. It would be better still if we could be guaranteed not just an Einstein but the Einstein. If a scientific method were developed so that the man who explained general relativity in the first half of the century could...