Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday morning the mood changed abruptly. Gromyko suddenly began disputing points that seemed minor and bringing up issues that Vance thought had been settled. Gromyko raised two key questions about the cruise missile, the highly accurate drone that the Pentagon is counting on to begin providing much of the nation's strategic strength in the 1980s. The Soviets insisted that cruise missiles outfitted with multiple warheads be formally banned until 1985, or for the duration of the SALT II treaty. Although this had come up in previous rounds of the arms talks, Vance thought that the matter had been...
Some police officers were not so non-committal. One warned us not to stick around after 7 p.m. when he thought most of the trouble would begin, another said he expected to be home by 6 p.m. and a third expressed the general sentiment that he wished none of this was happening in the first place, that after all this was New Year...
...thought the punitive should've stood. In punitive damages you're allowed to show the wealth of the defendant...it doesn't hurt if you penalize a billion dollar company $50,000, you have to penalize them in the millions of dollars, in order to make them change, change their goddamn gas tanks...The judge compared it with his salary and he dropped...
...think that they get good training. You get good background; I think that's awfully important, because you don't know what the hell you're going to do till you get out of school. I never thought that I'd go into as much personal injury work as I've gone into. I thought I wanted to do all criminal work. Then when I got out of law school, I saw that criminal work was dangerous...The things lawyers had to do to survive, you were just on the same level as the criminal...
...Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga, Wife Irene wept in bed after she had been raped by her husband. The next morning, Husband Soames ate breakfast comforted by the thought that "no one would know-it was not the sort of thing that she would speak about." Besides he had but prevented his wife "from abandoning her duty...