Word: rowing
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...drop of the month before, it still marks the longest consecutive decline since the 1991 recession. That followed news that after 21Ú2 years of steady and sometimes spectacular growth, the U.S. economy lost 101,000 jobs in May. The month before witnessed the third decline in a row in the index of leading economic indicators, which is used to forecast economic conditions six to nine months from now-when Campaign '96 will be well under way. "This is a pretty sizable slowdown," observes economist Victor Zarnowitz of Columbia University. "In many ways it resembles past slowdowns that have become...
Judy Haney sits on death row in Wetumpka, Alabama, convicted in 1988 of murdering her husband, who she says routinely beat her and her children. Women who kill an abusive spouse almost never receive the death penalty. But Haney's defense was not all it might have been: one of her attorneys, for instance, came to court so drunk that the judge halted the proceedings and sent the man to jail overnight. When the trial resumed the next day, Haney was convicted and sentenced...
...antiterrorism measures after the President and Republican leaders settled their differences over the plan. The bill includes some $2 billion for stepped-up counterterrorism programs, broadened wiretapping authority (a presidential request) and -- most controversial of all -- a limit of one federal habeas corpus appeal for most prisoners on death row (a Republican request). The House is expected to act soon on similar legislation...
Though Federico Martinez Macias spent almost 10 years on death row in Texas, the case against him was never strong. He was charged with a double murder arising from a 1983 El Paso burglary. The prime witness was himself a suspect, who was allowed to plead to a lesser charge for testifying against Macias. This man first told a grand jury that he had waited in a car while Macias committed the crime. But when confronted with evidence to the contrary -- including a failed polygraph test -- he subsequently admitted that he had gone into the victims' home and tied...
...invested about a million dollars of billable hours and resources, producing a 173-page petition that convinced two federal courts Macias had been wrongly convicted. When prosecutors presented his case to a new grand jury, it found there was insufficient evidence to reindict. After almost 10 years on death row, Macias was a free...