Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the president's fingerprints on it, nothing implicating Mr. Reagan in the apparently illegal diversion of profits to the Contras. Unless such evidence materializes--and that seems unlikely--Ronald Reagan is not guilty by reason of inanity, free from impeachment, destined to serve the remainder of his term with a measure of general affection. As that realization sinks in, the president's furies will slowly abandon the pursuit, and the crisis atmosphere will clear...
...other business, the council passed an amendment which would no longer require the Social Committee to reserve one-third of the term-bill income for social grants to House Committees...
...penalty. Amnesty Board Member John Shattuck, a professor at Harvard Law School, was asked by the commission's Benjamin Baer if the organization ever advocated the death penalty. No, replied Shattuck. "What would you do with a * prisoner who kills a guard?" Baer pressed. Answered Shattuck: "A long prison term might be appropriate...
...nerves were calmed last week by the spectacle of another once powerful Wall Streeter getting a prison sentence. Dennis Levine, a former managing director at the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm who broke open the scandal last year by implicating Boesky, drew a term of two years, making him the fourth insider trader this year who will do hard time. Levine had faced as much as 20 years on four counts of securities fraud, perjury and income-tax evasion. "I beg you, let me put the pieces of my life together again," he implored U.S. District Judge Gerard Goettel before...
Except for burlesque and Shakespearean soliloquies, the Boston-based Beau Jesters do it all: They do a parody of ritualized nonsense, what they term "A.R.T.-style," as well as the Flintstones theme song in barbershop quartet style. And from this mishmash, they create a surprisingly smooth and cleverly choreographed show...