Word: sure
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...Board of Zoning Appeals takes a `Sure, why not?' approach to anyone's application [for a variance]," said R. Philip Dowds, a member of the steering committee of CCLN. "Amending the ordinance eliminates ambiguity and says to the Zoning Board that they can't do that anymore...
...only to inform and advise agents and that actual arrests depend on the individual professional judgments of officers. Officials deny the documents are stereotypical portraits of disfavored groups. "They're more of a mental checklist," says Harry Myers, chief of DEA's criminal-law section. Others are not so sure. "After 23 years in customs law, you notice that inspectors look for certain things," says Los Angeles attorney Leonard Fertman. "If you're coming from Central America without a camera or luggage and you have a beard, you may spend more time being questioned than another person...
...jurors may have been impressed by his performance -- as well as by the clear evidence of wider Administration complicity. But they no doubt remembered the testimony earlier in the week by Vincent Cannistravo, a former NSC aide, who admitted, "You could never be sure whether what ((North)) said was true, fantasy, or was being told deliberately to mislead." And North's ability to win over an audience will face its roughest test this week, when prosecutor John Keker gets his turn to ask the questions. "North makes an excellent witness," said Richard Ben-Veniste, a former Watergate prosecutor. "The question...
This year, however, Louisville is on the upswing. Four of the seven shows at the just completed festival seem sure to have further life; one is among the freshest, funniest and most poignant works seen on any U.S. stage this season. Though the writers included Broadway stalwart Arthur Kopit, novelist Harry Crews and columnist William F. Buckley Jr., the best script, aptly for Louisville's tradition of discovery, came from regional-theater veteran Constance Congdon, whose works have never been produced in New York City...
While cleanup crews and local fishermen fight to contain the largest oil spill in U.S. history, Exxon faces mounting outrage over its role in the tragic episode, while policymakers ponder how to make sure it can never happen again. -- Resentful of international pressure, Brazil unveils a plan to help save the Amazon. See ENVIRONMENT...