Word: powdering
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...Friday, Packwood issued a statement saying he had reviewed the woman's deposition and took "strong exception to her version of the event." The Senator added, "It's not in my nature to lob personal attacks, and I'm doing my best to keep a lid on my powder." Meanwhile, he has continued to deny rumors that he will soon end the Senate's ordeal by resigning. "I have found my colleagues willing to wait until the Ethics Committee is done and we see the report. They're much less inclined than the press to judge until they know...
...Minnesota are expected to demand publicly that Mrs. Clinton be called to testify on whether she played any role in the removal of papers from the office of former White House aide Vincent Foster shortly after his 1993 suicide. It is unclear how the move -- a potential political powder keg -- would immediately be carried out. So far, TIME's James Carney notes, all committee requests for testimony and evidence have come jointly from the Republican chairman, Sen. Al D'Amato of New York, and the ranking Democrat, Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland. (Only D'Amato has sole authority to issue...
...criminal consequences. Under federal law, if you are caught with 5 grams of crack, you will, at minimum, be slapped with a five-year penalty. You must be caught with at least 500 grams of powder cocaine to earn a comparable sentence. Whether intended or not, the effect of this 100-to-1 ratio is that "it punishes poor people and people of color more heavily,'' says Nkechi Taifa of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Leavenworth; had he sold cocaine instead, his sentence would be closer to two years. The commission's bottom line: "Issues of 'fairness' or 'just punishment' result when relatively low-level crack retailers receive higher sentences than the wholesale-level cocaine dealer from whom the crack seller originally purchased the powder to make the crack...
...equalized. Even so, the playing field would not be entirely leveled. Under the proposed guidelines, drug sales involving weapons, violence or perpetrators who have significant criminal records would receive stiffer sentences. Thus, the Commission notes, "crack offenders will receive sentences generally at least twice as long as those for powder cocaine offenders involved with the same amount of drugs...