Word: temperments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who ought to be imprisoned? Minnesota's guidelines provide for sentences as long as those ordinarily given in the past. A one-year stayed sentence for first-offense marijuana possession, 27 years for a second-degree murderer with a string of earlier felony convictions. Other jurisdictions will temper justice with less mercy. Jerdell White, 36, a smooth-talking father of five, had been to prison in Texas twice before, for burglary and marijuana convictions. He was convicted in Dallas in 1978 of possessing a sawed-off shotgun, and given a life term. In Minnesota, White would already be free...
Does he think he will do something to put himself back in prison after this sentence is served? He feels that he has learned to moderate his expectations; that, he says, will help. Yet his resolution continues to be undermined by his temper. Even now he is on disciplinary report for raising a hand to a guard. He demonstrates the gesture as if to denote its casual innocence, but in fact a flick of his wrist is menacing. "I will always be in prison," he says after a while. "It was something stamped on my soul...
...send an official message to a foreign ambassador complaining about opposition from U.S. citizens in an essentially domestic dispute. Second, Watt's letter seemed to contain an implicit, cynical threat: if American dependence on Arab oil becomes too great, the U.S. might find it politically expedient to temper its support of Israel...
...report may have ignored the temper of the times. Ten years ago the public was moving toward the idea of lighter punishment for marijuana users. A 1972 study by the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse concluded that criminal sanctions were failing and counterproductive. Over the next six years, eleven states decriminalized pot possession for individual use,* while many others decreased penalties or loosened up their enforcement. President Carter backed a softening of federal laws. But by the late '70s the mood began to swing back. With an estimated 60% of high school seniors having tried...
Their proposal was quickly | disputed by Anthropologist Richard Leakey. He said that White and Johanson's large afarensis males and small females were more likely two entirely different species that lived side by side some 3 million years ago. The temper of the debate was not helped by Johanson's 1981 book Lucy, which discussed the activities of the Leakey family in an intimate, gossipy way. Though the discovery of what may be an older version of Lucy seems to bolster the case for afarensis, partisans on both sides of the debate agree that more fossils will have...