Word: staled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constitutional because it provided clear guidelines for deciding whether a particular murderer deserved death. But last week, while listening to oral arguments in a new Florida case. Justice Potter Stewart suddenly took off his glasses and angrily leaned back in his chair. "This court," he told stale lawyers, "upheld that statute on the representation of the state of Florida that this was an open and aboveboard proceeding. This case gets here, and it's apparent that it isn't." What had piqued Stewart was the disclosure that a damaging presentencing report to the judge had been kept secret...
...result, Diamond and Fiscal Services Director Gibson's representative, Thomas O'Brien, have not yet met to name the third or "neutral" member of the appeal board, raising the possibility that O'Brien--and eventually Harvard--will argue that Brown-Beasley's case has gone "stale." It seems at this point, with Harvard's public statement that it cannot block Diamond's membership on the panel, that Brown-Beasley and his representative should move on to more substantive disputes...
...give you an example. Last night at Dartmouth they had a bonfire. Last night at Cambridge they went to Joe's Pizza. And the worst thing was, the pepperonis were stale...
...grand for stale pepperonis. Six grand to be miserable. Six grand to let the Dartmouths have all the fun. Why, if I didn't go to Out of Town every day, I'd think that Chris Chambliss was a butterfly...
...them. Whitlock describes Rosovsky's experimentation with administrative personnel as similar to a civil service model, under which career administrators are moved around until they find a place that fits their capabilities. In addition, Rosovsky's conviction that administrators should be moved around so they don't get stale adds a sense of impermanency to any stage of University Hall's organization--Arthurs, for example, now holds her third title in four years, and even now she is only an acting dean. Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges--Fox's counterpart in the academic sphere...