Word: pullen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never concurred in the supposedly unanimous vote. There is also jolting evidence that race prejudice played a central role in the jury's deliberations. Finally, Hance, a black former Marine who was found guilty of bludgeoning to death two prostitutes in 1978, may have been mildly retarded. Douglas Pullen, a prosecutor who helped investigate the first murder case, maintains that "at the very least, this man had a borderline I.Q. That is not retarded." But Hance's trial in a military court for the second murder ended in the reversal of a life sentence after jurors determined that he lacked...
...important environmental battle seemed to be lost, a catastrophe imminent. "We were terribly disappointed that the ship broke apart before we could salvage the oil," says Sian Pullen, a marine-conservatio n officer with the World Wide Fund for Nature. "This is a horrible disaster: a toxic cloud of chemicals is spreading through the water." At first the area around Fitful Head was fouled by the oil. Birds such as the shag and the great northern diver became coated with crude and died. Whipped up by the 90-m.p.h. winds, an oily mist spread over the southern...
...number of female candidates who support abortion rights have won primary battles that could portend problems for antiabortion Republicans. In Houston, for example, congressional candidate Dolly Madison McKenna defeated antiabortion opponent Esther Lee Yao although Yao outspent her several times over. In Illinois' Republican primary, state representative Penny Pullen, an antiabortionist and disciple of right-to-lifer Phyllis Schlafly, was defeated by abortion-rights advocate Rosemary Mulligan...
...Illinois paralegal unseated a seven-term incumbent for the G.O.P. nomination to a statehouse seat -- by the toss of a coin. Mulligan, an abortion advocate, and pro-lifer Penny Pullen tied in the March primary. A court ordered the coin flip. Mulligan chose tails. Pullen is appealing...