Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free will and can choose between good and evil. Conversely, if someone lacks free will because of a mental disorder, then he should not be punished for evil conduct. In colonial America, where more than 200 crimes were punishable by death, this defense often was the only way to spare someone from the gallows. Over the years, the standard became more cumbersome. The M'Naghten rule, devised by the English in 1843, declared that a defendant was not culpable if he "was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know...
...Ghost inside the jury room. Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph Margiotta stood accused of mail fraud and extortion, and a court clerk warned prospective jurors that the trial might last four to six weeks. Richard Yurack, who had recently been laid off as a chemical salesman, had time to spare and thought the trial would be interesting, but in the course of 65 witnesses and 4,000 pages of testimony, says Yurack, the whole case "just got too complicated for some of the jurors...
DIED. Eugenio Montale, 84, stoic, reclusive Italian poet whose spare, often difficult verse, which he described as "an attack on life, with no illusions," won him the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature; of heart disease; in Milan. Montale, who published his first volume of poetry, Bones of the Cuttlefish, in 1925, produced four more volumes over the next 50 years, supporting himself with jobs as a librarian and literary critic for Italian magazines and newspapers. A self-described "journalist," who regarded spiritual redemption as the only antidote to the tragic realities of life, he once explained that his poetry could...
...into effect until October 1, or even the well-intentioned earnestness of his pleas for patience and sacrifice in the upcoming years. The technical economic arguments for tax cuts and spending reductions have never been the compelling force behind the administration's radical policy initiatives. Reagan's refusal to spare the defense budget any sharp cuts in its proposed growth makes that clear enough...
...announced they would continue to solicit funds until the October 1984 completion date even if the original goal had been surpassed. On Boylston St., mean-while, a last-minute bulge in contributions pushed the K-school's fund drive over its $6 million preliminary target with only days to spare. The money--much of which came from a single anonymous donor--will fund an addition to the school, extending either up Boylston or Eliot streets...