Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...King beating case, continual repetition of the video may have dulled its initial horror for the jury. And by presenting the tape in slow motion, separated into split-second frames, the defense fractured a seamless sequence of apparent brutality into a hundred moments of uncertain meaning. Attorney Stone contended that King can be seen attempting to rise at several points. "In the hundredths of a second between this photograph and this one," Stone said of one display, "Mr. King is again coming up off the ground, and he charges Officer Powell...
...cameras had been present during the American Civil War to record the slaughters of Cold Harbor, say, or the Wilderness, the public might have been so sickened that it would have abandoned the struggle. The country might have split into the United States and the Confederate States; slavery might have survived a long time. Some think seeing executions on television would so repel the public that it would abolish capital punishment. Some believe showing such vivid evidence of the punishment would deter people from committing the crimes. Perhaps. Or would televised executions become something like what they were once -- grisly...
...predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking peoples has unfolded to the outside world. The former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan never agitated for the breakup of the union and even served as a passive but powerful prop for the communist regime. Once centralized Soviet control began to split apart, however, they had little choice but to join the exodus toward independence...
...after interminable foot dragging and infighting, the nine-member Canadian Aviation Safety Board issued a split verdict. Five attributed the crash to ice formation and not to an explosion. But four, including two aeronautical engineers, disagreed so vociferously that a former Canadian supreme court justice was appointed to see if a new investigation should be opened. The evidence, wrote Justice Willard Estey, "does not support ice contamination." Nevertheless, he advised that further probing would be unfair to the victims' families. "It's for their sake that the case should be reopened," counters George Baker, the Liberal Party Member of Parliament...
After the news summary, you will find the main part of the magazine, a body of stories that do not just record events but go well beyond the news. These stories define the essential mission of a newsmagazine in the era of split- second global communications: to give you more -- more than you saw on television, heard on the radio or read in your local newspaper. Not just more facts, but more understanding. The 1992 version of TIME's prospectus might offer, as editor-in-chief Jason McManus puts it, "to meet the needs of busy men and women...