Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unanimous judgment of the committee that no basis has been found for concluding that Mr. Casey is unfit to serve as director of Central Intelligence...
...defendants who went on trial in 1975, one died, one was declared medically unfit and four were acquitted for lack of evidence; one was tried separately for lesser crimes and got two years. Among the surviving defendants, nearly all admitted sharing the responsibility for the brutality of the camp but stopped short of admitting to any murders. Hermine Ryan told the court she now had "deep understanding and regret" for the sufferings of the prisoners. "I only reject the charge of murder," she added. In the end, the testimony was strong enough to exact the maximum penalty only for Ryan...
Granted, the Columbia is a yummy public relations cream puff. But I am not cheering. What good is space wizardry if our home planet becomes unfit for life -animal, vegetable or human...
...papers never grew up. When readership moved to the suburbs and became more respectable, the Hearst papers couldn't follow. The domineering Hearst had made his sons unfit to lead by spoiling them, pulling them out of college, putting them in jobs over their heads, dashing their confidence, and sealing the insult in his will by contriving to strip them of command and money. So the company fell into the hands of a riskless, unimaginative class of managers who kept the family at bay, sold off half the papers from 1956-67, and turned a turbulent enterprise into a bottom...
...There would be no exemptions from the lottery except for crippling illness. Anyone drafted but considered physically unfit for combat training would be assigned to noncombat duties. Conscientious objectors would be conscripted for a form of nonmilitary service...