Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HISTORY of the bill exemplifies the political brokerage that shapes virtually all legislation. The Brown Commission finally made its report in 1971, and its recommendations were taken under consideration by a Justice Department committee chaired in turn by John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst. That committee drafted the original Criminal Code reform bill, designated S. 1400 in 1973. However, the original bill died in committee, and with good reason; the proposal contained some of the Nixon administration's most paranoid reflections. It recommended the death penalty for a shockingly wide range of crimes and a "National Security" act that would protect...
...mile or so because the engineer had missed a switch--I hooked up with four young kids, none of whom looked very happy. They were all from the Boston area, all under 20, and all of them were on the way to Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago to report for four years enlistment in the Navy. Instantly I felt sorry for the poor guys; they had nothing better to do, no jobs, no money, and lots of brothers and sisters who needed their parents' attention more than they did. So we sat for a while, playing cards, smoking cigarettes...
...would argue that what is written in the Hite Report or The Joy of Lesbian Sex is of relatively little importance. What is important is that the feminists' desire for sexual equality has cleared the way for a great deal of open discussion about human sexuality, which can only be a healthy development...
Finally, there are safety worries. A report by the General Accounting Office due for publication in May takes a dim view of locating LNG terminals in highly populated areas, because of the possibility that leaking liquid might vaporize, ignite and form a deadly fireball. Gasmen retort that no one has ever seen such a fireball. John Cabot, chairman of Distrigas, scoffs that a catastrophe is "a lurid image in search of a believable scenario." Whatever their ultimate volume, though, LNG imports are sure to rise; they constitute a supplemental form of energy that the U.S. simply cannot spurn...
...pitchers and has used the delay to concoct elaborate arrivals, threatening to land on the pitcher's mound in a helicopter or hobbling to camp swathed in plaster of paris casts. But this year, Steinbrenner decided to exercise his Prussian sense of humor. He castigated the pitcher to reporters on the grounds that Lyle had a contractual obligation to report to camp early. Actually, Lyle was not bound to report until March 1. When he showed up-four days ahead of the contract deadline-Steinbrenner dispatched a high school band to the airport to play Pomp and Circumstance, while...