Word: prodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though no defense lawyer can eliminate all pretrial opinion, he can diminish it by asking veniremen exactly what they have read in the press-and then prod them to reconsider it entirely in terms of reasonable doubt. Even if they still show prejudice, the attorney may accept them: some people yearn to prove themselves unprejudiced. Moreover, lawyers commonly ask jurors in advance to guarantee disregard for this or that messy fact ("Will you disregard the defendant's adultery?"). Not for nothing does Percy Foreman devote as much as ten days to voir dire. "Once we chose the jury...
...tutors may resume their efforts later this year to prod the Department into making more revisions. There is every reason for junior faculty members to attempt to influence department policy, but in this case it would be a mistake for the senior faculty to agree to reduce the size of the honors program...
...were the publishers of the city's merged newspapers of a mind to prod the Guild along. For as soon as the package is ratified, the strike will be officially over. The publishers will then be locked in a legal battle with the Printing Pressmen, who insist that their only contracts are with papers that no longer exist. As long as they lack a new contract with the World Journal Tribune, they say, they will not work. That argument is already being contested in the courts, but legal action was suspended while Guild picket lines kept the Pressmen from...
...cattle prod in his hand and a "Never" button on his shirt, Sheriff Jim Clark twinged the nation's conscience during last year's Selma march. As much as anyone, he personified the Southern inequity that provoked the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was, therefore, altogether fitting that Big Jim should be the loser in the first case brought under that...
Creative Federalism.The final definition of HUD's responsibilities may spring from the President's "demonstration" program for cities offered to Congress in January. It calls for a $2.3 billion, six-year pilot project aimed at encouraging broad, unified plans that will prod suburban and inner-city governments into the cooperative ventures that they have so assiduously avoided in the past. Though its initial appropriation of $12 million is scarcely enough to buy 1½ miles of Manhattan subway, the program at last-and at least-recognizes that the metropolitan crisis demands a coordinated, scientific approach to quicken civic...