Word: pose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hastings' problems stem from his longtime friendship with William Borders, a prominent Washington attorney, who was convicted in a separate trial in 1982. After learning from an informant that Borders claimed to be a conduit for bribes to Hastings, the FBI commissioned a retired agent to pose as one of two brothers convicted of racketeering in the judge's courtroom. The impersonator struck a deal with Borders. In exchange for $150,000, Borders would get Hastings to reduce the brothers' punishment. Two meetings and a cryptic wiretapped phone conversation ensued between Hastings and Borders, followed by an order from...
Roman Catholicism has just begun to grapple with the awareness that liberal scholarship may pose a threat to dogma. "Sometimes I ask my Catholic counterparts why they must make all the same mistakes in 20 years when we Protestant theologians needed over 200 years," jests Tubingen's Hengel. Conservative Catholics hope Ratzinger will strike at this threat, but the Cardinal is said to oppose a return to Rome's earlier proclamations on the Bible's complete historical reliability. He seems to prefer intellectual counteroffensives to decrees and crackdowns...
...tied his offer to a long-held Iranian goal: getting possession of assets, including $400 million worth of armaments, impounded by Washington when relations were severed in 1980. "Let them ((U.S. officials)) take a nonhostile pose by releasing our assets," said Rafsanjani. "If so, we will use our influence in Lebanon." Reagan Administration officials quickly ruled out the possibility of any deal that had the appearance of an Iran-contra- style ransom. Reagan nonetheless chose to view the comment optimistically, saying, "If they're willing and ready to talk, it's time...
...mirrors on locker doors. Lip glosses glow at the start of each class. An open locker door reveals a picture of a sunset with these words underneath: "Let's get drunk and go to heaven." A few kids kiss amid the shuffling crowd. Over the decades the smooching pose has not changed: girls stand nonchalantly as boys, elbow bent against the locker, shield the stolen kiss from view...
While aides to the subcommittee say that the Morrison amendment is unlikely to pass, proponents of the clause say it is necessary to ensure that the government adequately monitors potential health and environmental dangers that genetically-altered animals may pose...