Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special prosecutor, the court's decision is like the "arrival of the 7th Cavalry." But Custer's 7th Cavalry was wiped out at Little Bighorn, and whether Deaver will get to ride off in freedom remains to be seen: the Supreme Court is likely to review the ruling this term...
...cities throughout the country, including Cincinnati, San Francisco and Seattle, and no application has ever been denied. But Detroit presents an unusual case. By far the biggest consolidation ever proposed (worth $300 million in annual advertising and circulation revenues), the Detroit J.O.A. would last for an initial term of 100 years, twice the life-span of most others. The result, warns Michigan State Senator John F. Kelly, would be a dangerous precedent. "If the J.O.A. is approved in Detroit," he declares, "there's no way any other J.O.A. in any other city in the country could be denied...
...says, spent "extravagantly" in the expectation that they would either triumph over the competition or be rewarded anyway with a lucrative J.O.A. Monies currently cited by Knight-Ridder as part of the Free Press's $100 million losses were once accepted by its board as "investments" in a long-term strategy to beat the News...
...ravaging may be the worst sacrilege ever committed against an Indian site in the U.S. "It was total devastation," says Indian Activist Dennis Banks. "There were bones strewn all over the place." If convicted, the grave robbers face maximum penalties of just $500 and a one-year jail term for "desecration of a sacred object...
...into space. Perhaps the most significant: cosmic rays and high- energy radiation from the solar wind. Earth-orbiting space travelers like Romanenko are protected from this potentially deadly radiation by the earth's magnetic field. But, says Oberg, "there is no real experience anywhere on the effects of long-term, deep-space radiation exposure." Even so, with Romanenko's performance the Soviets bolstered their commanding lead over the U.S. in long-duration space flights. Soviet space officials have decreed that the current crew of the space station Mir, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov, will stay in orbit for a full...