Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bailey, recalled once more the "circus publicity" of the trial. The reason for such banner headlines as WHY ISN'T SAM SHEPPARD IN JAIL?; QUIT STALLING, BRING HIM IN; Bailey contended, was that Cleveland Press Editor Louis Seltzer (who recently retired) thought that only his paper could prevent a cover-up of the murder. Once the trial began, Bailey argued, Seltzer pressed for a conviction so that his paper would be protected against libel suits...
...Uganda last week presented a variation on Africa's current crop of coups. Uganda's gov ernment was overthrown all right, but not by military men. It was Prime Minister Milton Apollo Obote himself who seized full powers, and he did it, so he said, only to prevent another coup which was being planned against...
...Goldberg in the American Bar Association Journal. There is indeed, he says. It is called "misprision of felony" (from the Old French mesprendre, to mistake). Misprision is a crime of omission-a failure to act. In 1907, the Vermont Supreme Court defined it as "a criminal neglect either to prevent a felony or to bring the offender to justice after its commission." Misprision thus differs from "accessory" offenses, such as assent or assistance in a felony. Because the two are easily confused, however, misprision is almost never prosecuted, and to the few U.S. lawyers who even know the term, misprision...
...come for, however, are the goods, which are tailored to Latin American tastes. Clothing styles owe more to Europe than the U.S. The tool and paint departments, which are mainstays in the U.S., scarcely exist in Latin America, where cheap labor and a middle-class aversion to manual work prevent any do-it-yourself...
...Commission, the result of the merger of the MSD and some other area authorities, has almost completed a 20-year, $105 million project to eliminate pollution from Boston Harbor and the overflow pollution of the Charles River. The MDC has replaced the interceptors with huge new sewers which will prevent all sudden overflows into the river. Sewage will be carried to an underground chamber on Magazine Beach near B.U. Bridge. Here the stormwater will be retained and chlorinated and then discharged into the river. The rest of the sewage flow will continue through the Boston Main Drainage Tunnel...