Word: sped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...India, the headlines were studded with the likes of San Francisco's Melvin Belli. But in a Manhattan federal court last week, when the government of India filed what could be the most significant of the Bhopal lawsuits, it was represented by a law firm that had not even sped to the scene. Its name draws a blank among nonlawyers: Robins, Zelle, Larson & Kaplan of Minneapolis. The choice, however, was no surprise to many in the legal profession. In the arcane field of industrial-disaster litigation, Robins Zelle lawyers are considered kings of catastrophe...
...four shots ring out while on patrol in his East Houston neighborhood on March 3, he could not resist the impulse to take action, however dangerous. As he radioed his base station --Hester's handle was "Stringbean," the base was "Country Cousin"--a white Chevrolet Monza with three occupants sped past him. He followed at high speed. Country Cousin, actually Howard Petty, 61, security director for the Eastwood Civic Association, relayed the information to a deputy constable hired by the association on weekends. The deputy intercepted the fleeing Monza and took the occupants at gunpoint to a nearby bar, where...
...House Roosevelt Room, he gave each a fat notebook to put in his briefcase. The papers comprised the President's instructions, just made final, on how the U.S. is to carry out its side of the deliberations in Geneva, which begin this week. Along with these marching orders, Reagan sped the negotiators forth with an exhortation to be patient during the "long and difficult" bargaining ahead. "All God's children have lived with the fear of nuclear war," declared Reagan. "Above all, we seek agreement as soon as possible on real and verifiable reductions in American and Soviet offensive nuclear...
...grandeur to domestic melodrama, the nimble midgets in attendance played at defacing his stature. Strange Interlude ran for 4 1/2 hours and an impressive 426 performances; road companies packed the provinces for three seasons after its 1928 opening; the play brought O'Neill his third Pulitzer Prize, and sped him on to a Nobel in 1936. And still the jesters japed. Critic Alexander Woollcott, noting that one of the central characters was a gentleman of indeterminate sexual appetites, called Strange Interlude "a play in nine scenes and an epicene." Alfred Lunt, the doyen of Broadway actors, described...
...Launched in August 1977, it was originally designed to operate for five years and assigned to encounter only Jupiter (in 1979) and Saturn (in 1981), missions that it carried out with great success, sending back data and thousands of spectacular photographs of both planets. But even before Voyager sped by Saturn, NASA decided to take further advantage of a onceevery-175- years alignment of the outer planets by using Saturn's gravitational pull to hurl Voyager on to Uranus, then to use Uranian gravity to speed the craft to an enounter with Neptune. Now, after 8 1/2 years aloft, Voyager...