Word: tags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been criticized by stuffier colleagues as "too commercial," but the zesty expert on criminal law accepts that tag as a compliment. For Kamisar, who once longed to be a sportswriter, "the lawyer is the great translator" who should strive to make legal principles clear to the general public. Kamisar has churned out many articles for magazines and newspapers, sometimes working through the night when he is pursuing a good idea. He is a witty performer in the classroom, cajoling, infuriating, charming his students-all the while, he says, "trying to develop a certain kind of mind, a legal mind, that...
...blame for the world's soaring petroleum prices? The vast majority of consumers and experts alike would readily answer: OPEC. During the past four years, the eleven-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has more than quintupled oil prices, raising the present tag to about $13 a barrel...
...Middlesex County Training School, an institution for truant youths. Ralph says that McLaughlin's budget claims are "at very best a half truth" because the influx of federal revenue sharing funds in recent years has altered the county budget without any help from the commissioners. He resents the spendthrift tag. While county assessments have climbed 97 percent in the four years before his election, they have risen just 5 per cent in the four years since...
...fact, he preceded his visit with a generous Mexican offer to the U.S. PEMEX, the national oil company, has begun shipping 2.4 billion cu. ft. of natural gas to the fuel-starved U.S. through pipeline connections at Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros; the gas will have a price tag of more than $5 million. And with Florida's vegetable crops devastated by the winter weather, Mexico is shipping tomatoes in quantity to the U.S. from vast agribusiness farms below the border
...three linemates who have brought the hockey heritage of the Alberta prairies to the Crimson this season. "It just happened that the coach wanted to put us together and it just happened that we're all from Edmontion." Dea said. Despite its haphazard origins, the Edmonton Express is a tag that evokes the scoring chemistry and charisma of the immortal lines of hockey's heyday--Montreal's Punch Line, Toronto's Kid Line, Detroit's Production Line, Boston's Kraut Line, and New York's Gag Line...