Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken. Through later decisions the court in effect nullified this ruling. That same year, Clark was in the minority in contending that Occidental Oil Co. did not have to file an environmental-impact report before drilling test holes off the Los Angeles coastline. He wrote, a bit woodenly: "Sound practical considerations militate against the implication of formalistic requirements in the legislative process." Clark also dissented in two court decisions that upheld the right of communities to limit residential projects in which the developer did not also help pay for additional school facilities...
...numbered high among them. The female lead (Jobeth Williams) dies offscreen, her passing noted in just a line or two of dialogue. Another major character, a farmer and family man (John Cullum), gets shot by squatters, and his widowed wife and orphaned children react only by turning toward the sound of the gun. Charac ters tumble in and out like cards in a dropped deck...
...Clark varsity sound is key for this year contest. Says Coach Odiaga. "This year we definitely have a speaker system in the boat our bow was pretty much demolished...
Last weekend's dance at Leverett House lost $550, according to Leverett House Committee Chairman A. Brent Truitt '84. After spending $800 on the band, sound equipment and soda, the House made $250 in admissions revenue...
...part this is due to Watt's choice of language-the word cripple in this instance, which has the sound of a flat slap in the face. Yet a few days after Watt's remark, in a bizarre protest demonstration in his defense, a man on crutches supported the usage, citing other contexts where "cripple" is benign. True enough. Former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz forced himself out of the Ford Administration by telling a cruel and tasteless joke about "coloreds"; yet Dick Gregory could title his autobiography Nigger, and Flip Wilson won love and fortune by creating...