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...Edgerly's guilt. The lawyer desperately looked around for anyone who knew enough about relatively new techniques to cross-examine the supposed expert. Bailey happened to be studying polygraphs for another client's defense. Barely three months after his admission to the bar, he got what he called "a slice of the moon." He tore apart the expert's credentials and testimony, then took over presentation of all the defense evidence and won. It was his first time in court...
...slice the nationalized firm's overstaffed work force by onequarter...
...Crimson swordsmen took in a slice of the Big Apple this weekend, and returned from their two-bout affair tasting both victory and defeat. Edo Marion's traveling band of blade brandishers slashed their way to a convincing 18-9 win over CCNY Friday night, but the Crimson fell to the steel of perennial powerhouse NYU in a hard fought 15-12 bout on Saturday...
...current American aid appropriations to about $10 billion a year. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders, leader of the U.S. negotiating team, explained that "the political base no longer exists" in the U.S. for aid programs on that scale. The Americans also voiced their objections to pledging an automatic slice of any new special drawing rights-the International Monetary Fund's "paper gold"-as development aid to the poorer countries...
...dialogue. Some smart Chandler lines have been retained, but Richards and Goodman have added some others ("It's Snow White." "With or without the dwarfs?"), presumably of their own invention. Up against the real thing, these emendations stand out, as Chandler once wrote, "like a tarantula on a slice of angel food...