Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Italy's commercial counselor in Washington, Gerardo Carante, said that only six of the Italian firms whose wines are suspected of being contaminated have shipped products to the U.S.* Nonetheless, BATF Director Stephen Higgins announced that all Italian wine entering this country would have to carry a certificate of purity that the Italian government has begun issuing for bottles cleared for export. Shipments that left Italy before the Rome government began requiring the certificates would be prohibited from entering U.S. markets...
...insight into Rifkin's complex mind and motivations appears in his 1983 work Algeny, a book that presents a creationist-like view of Darwin and makes it clear that Rifkin disapproves of tampering with the genes of any of God's creatures--from viruses to man. In Algeny, Biologist Stephen Jay Gould charged in a 1985 review, Rifkin "uses every debater's trick in the book to mischaracterize and trivialize his opposition, and to place his own dubious claims in a rosy light." The book, Gould concludes, is "a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading as scholarship...
...Bernard Bailyn, Donald Fleming, Oscar Handlin, and Stephen Thernstrom...
...turf over which the Vaughnum cousins are scuffling is Honeysuckle Hill, a rundown mansion with 25 acres of barren land. Cousin King (Stephen Root), the conniver, and his sugarcoated dragon of a wife Clairice (Jane Murray) want to raze the house and put up a "Christian shopping center." The twins, Ruth (Pat Nesbit) and Raymond (Ray Dooley), resent that plan but do not want to move back in either. Miss Anna (Lizan Mitchell), a black family retainer whom everyone believes to be an illegitimate child of Grandfather Vaughnum's, feels that the house is rightly hers. Bobby (Fritz Sperberg...
...Angiulos were right to be nervous: RICO is one tough piece of legislation. With some hyperbole, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, Stephen Trott, calls it "the thermonuclear device of criminal statutes." More than 15 years after it was adopted by Congress, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act has become the most potent Mob-busting tool in the nation, blasting underworld operations from New York to California...