Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disgusted by the animalistic crime of rape. But the statement made by Bert Graham of Houston's district attorney's office, "Now juries are quick to side with the complainant," prompted visions of future injustice. Awakening people to a crime like rape is fine, but we must be careful to keep public opinion out of our court system...
...anything break the impasse? Yes, say congressional leaders: an early fizzling out of the recovery, with a threat of new recession and another rise in unemployment, or a reignition of inflation, could build public pressure to force the Administration and Congress into quick action (i.e., before the election). Which amounts to saying that the economy will be saved from a long-range threat only if it stumbles into immediate disaster. Which is a strange way to run a country...
...most exuberant and outgoing of the "cousins," as the conglomeration of Kennedy children is dubbed. His life, at least on paper, glittered: Harvard (class of '76), a stint at the London School of Economics, author of a 1978 book on Alabama Judge Frank Johnson. In 1982, in quick succession, he was married, graduated from the University of Virginia Law School, and started work as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan...
...familiar product of a family meat-packing firm), is a polo-playing pal of Prince Charles. Michael has never officially been employed by the Vesteys, but it seems likely that he was well supported by a family trust fund. Following Telling's arrest, some of the Vesteys were quick to point out, as a spokesman put it, that he "was not a close member of the family...
...quick six-day tour of the province, for an oldtimer, is a delight. The small towns throb again, their booths full of sweets, cookies, housewares, clothes, textiles, flower pots and flowers. In big cities like Chengdu and Chongqing, the huge food markets overwhelm the eye with food that can be bought without coupons. Hogs come squealing to market in wheelbarrows, on tractors, even lashed to the backs of bicycles, then reappear in the markets as huge slabs of pink-and-white pork. Peasants bring in their wives' squawking chickens, eight to a basket. Down the market lanes peasants sell geese...