Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time too, calling himself Sugar Miami Steve on one of his albums for Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. By the time he officially left Springsteen in 1984, he had taken another name, Little Steven, and was trying to stand in his own light. Bruce, however, cast a heavy shadow...
...even behind bars, Barbie throws a long shadow. From the day of his capture, there were whispers that retribution could bring political catastrophe: the prisoner knows too much about too many. His lawyer is Jacques Verges, most recently the defender of the Arab terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, sentenced last February to life imprisonment by a French tribunal for complicity in the killings of two diplomats, one of them an American, and in the attempted murder of a third. With Verges' help, Barbie is quite capable of turning the tables, of forcing a trial of France under the Occupation...
Justices William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissented, calling the study proof of impermissible lingering racism in American justice. "Race casts a large shadow on the capital sentencing process," wrote Brennan. The dissenters questioned why statistical evidence, acceptable for attacking discrimination in employment or jury selection, was not acceptable in this case. They also charged that the majority was driven by other than judicial concerns -- a fear of disrupting the implementation of the criminal-justice system in Georgia and elsewhere...
Many illegals feel it is impossible to prove that they have spent the past five years in the U.S. Working for cash, living under assumed names, moving frequently, these shadow citizens are now told to furnish the incriminating documents they once tried to avoid: rent and telephone receipts, pay slips, tax forms. "The documentation requirements for applicants are written in an Alice-in-Wonderland world," says Peter Schey, a Los Angeles immigrant advocate. "Illegal aliens don't leave a paper trail. INS is treating these people as if they were IBM executives with resumes in their back pockets...
...Britain's supersecret intelligence service, was a scholarly, chubby and unprepossessing bachelor. He enjoyed an impeccable reputation, and was said to be the prototype for Novelist John le Carre's spy master, George Smiley. But unlike Smiley, Oldfield had a dark secret that has posthumously cast a shadow over his career...