Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With members itching to hit the campaign trail, Congress slogged through a raft of last-minute legislative business, including a pile of spending bills, in order to adjourn as quickly as possible. The House approved and sent to the Senate for its expected approval a stringent ban on gifts from lobbyists. The Senate, unable to overcome bitter partisan differences, walked away from campaign-reform legislation but agreed to go back for a post-election lame- duck session in order to vote on global-trade legislation...
Justice has been annexed into the domain of show business, packaged and scented for maximum consumer appeal. In America the right to free speech supersedes the right to a fair trail because we don't have any qualms about pointing a gun to someone's head if it makes us laugh...
...hope those lawyers get to serve on the jury." O.J. Simpson attorney Robert L. Shapiro, in an interview with the National Law Journal responding to a national poll of lawyers which indicated that 61 percent believe the football superstar's trail will result in other acquittal or a hung jury for Simpson, accused of murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Of nearly 50 criminal defense attorneys polled, only one in five thought Simpson would be found guilty...
...seemed to trail off. Catching himself, he added: "But you can't say that any one thing made us lose. We were beaten badly...
...wouldn't it have been a wise idea to at least cover your tracks? Not that we at The Crimson are well-trained criminals, but it just seems that common sense would dictate that if you commit grand larceny, you shouldn't leave a long and well-documented paper trail detailing your crime. Harvard students are a clever bunch--can't thieves come up with some clever way of hiding their misdeeds...