Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During 15 days of deliberation, the jury had leaned toward acquittal on seven of the eight counts against Buckey. It was split evenly on the last one. "We got more hung ((rather)) than less hung," said jury foreman Richard Dunham. Most of the jurors said they believed some of the children had been molested, but from the evidence presented they could not tell who had done it. "There were too many gaping holes, and too much time had passed," said juror Michael Carapella. Jurors also expressed doubts about videotaped interviews used as evidence in which therapists and social workers encouraged...
Raymond Belknap, 18, was excited about the Christmas present he was giving his best friend, James Vance, 20: a heavy-metal rock record by the British band Judas Priest. For five hours the young men listened to the raucous, apocalyptic throb of the music while they smoked marijuana and split a dozen beers. Violent fantasies were nothing new to either of them. Vance had choked his mother on one occasion and hit her with a hammer on another; Belknap had stolen money and a van and exposed himself to women; both talked of leaving their hometown of Sparks...
...right-wing agenda is the repeal of Roe v. Wade. O'Connor, the court's only woman, has seemed sympathetic to such a reversal but reluctant to provide the decisive vote in a court split 5 to 4 on the issue. But if another antiabortion Justice joined the bench, O'Connor could take refuge in a 6-to-3 majority...
...convincing that his victory might justly have been dubbed "Ligachev's last stand." It was then, from his left flank, that Yeltsin pounced. When the chairman of the Russian parliament announced he was pulling out of the party, he paved the way in effect for a potentially dangerous split in the 18 million-member body...
...Russian republic, which covers 76% of the U.S.S.R.'s landmass and is home to 147 million of its 289 million people, he holds a strong power base where he is now free to try his own more radical brand of reform. Even if the party does not split formally, Gorbachev could be left trying to implement perestroika through a rump dominated by moderates unable to keep pace with leftists outside the party...