Word: staid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every hierarchy has its version of freshman hazing, and the court, in its staid way, has traditions for its junior member to ponder. Like the youngest child at table, Breyer will find himself seated far from Chief Justice William Rehnquist, to his extreme left. During the court's conference-room discussions of each case, he will always speak last. Indeed, in the past, the junior member was said to serve as something of an errand boy, "ordering out" for salient documents, expected to open the door for colleagues and, absent a staff member, taking their messages...
...place on American soil. The case, however, did not achieve the | pyrotechnics of the crime. For five months, the jury members twisted in their leather swivel chairs while the government paraded 207 witnesses and more than 1,000 exhibits before them. Only once or twice did proceedings break the staid atmosphere, most notably when a prosecution witness, asked to identify two suspects, pointed to members of the jury...
Smith and Malone had been an odd couple from the start. Smith, 56, an amateur actor and playwright who turned Bell Atlantic into the most venturesome of the seven Baby Bells, had come up through the staid bureaucratic ranks of AT&T before its breakup in 1984. Malone, 52, is a strong-willed, publicity-averse entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in operations research who built the fledgling TCI into the country's largest cable operator, gaining a reputation for ruthlessness along...
Harvard Bookstore: This staid bookstore was unashamed of its relatively meager collection of lusty pageturners. "No, no, no. We don't carry contemporary schmaltz. Certainly not," one staffer said...
...this was very nice for director Jonathan Demme and TriStar Pictures, which had nervously spent $26 million on the drama about a gay lawyer (Hanks) who contracts AIDS, is fired by his staid Philadelphia firm and hires a streetwise attorney (Washington) to press his case. The public was buying Philadelphia, or at least paying to see it. But among homosexuals all over the country the film was stoking an agitated debate. Their central questions: Is the movie accurate? Is it good for gays? And does its success mean a more gay- friendly cinema -- one that admits to the existence...