Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grand jury is an old institution, and it operates in an antiquated way," says Laurie Robinson, the chief of the American Bar Association's criminal justice section. For hundreds of years the purpose of grand juries has been the same: to determine whether there is enough evidence to bring an accused person to trial. But the confusing three-month period it took to decide whether Bernhard Goetz should be charged with attempted murder has put the grand jury system in the dock once again: one panel refused to indict Goetz for that crime, a second panel decided the other...
...gamblers, whom the gaming industry prefers to call good customers. "I'm not denying that he plays golf with customers," Bally's Alan Rosenzweig says of Mays, "but he spends more time with charities and schools." Either radiating altruism or blushing from embarrassment, retired athletes as distinguished as Brooks Robinson, Johnny Unitas, Walt Frazier and Phil Esposito have danced around in crap-game commercials, like so many Sky Mastersons in a velveteen sewer, warbling...
After all, contemporary acclaim is wonderful. Peggy Lee, the jazz singer, once fielded the question "Who is the best jazz singer?" as cleanly as Brooks Robinson reaching over third base: "Do you mean besides Ella?" Such is the esteem in which Wayne Gretzky and Larry Bird are held now. By common agreement, each is the best in his sport, and something more than that. They are changing the elements if not the definition of a star. In Gretzky's and Bird's gloved and bare hands, hockey and basketball appear to improve even as games, seem to become not only...
Nonetheless, Hardy believes he is exploring a realm that may help define the human race. Even though he has passed the reins of the Oxford research unit to British Botanist Edward Robinson, Hardy plans to continue his own work with the aid of his new prize money. One day, he hopes, studies like his will be extended to Asian cultures, helping to resolve the skirmishing among Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. "They must realize," he says, "that their different religions are all part of the same...
...panel will include Debra Robinson, spike Lee, Warrington Hudlin, and Reginald Hudlin...