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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Executives of Unisys Corp., some of whom have pleaded guilty to various conspiracy and bribery charges in the Pentagon procurement scandal, pressured others to make illegal contributions to D'Amato's 1986 campaign and then seek reimbursement from the Defense Department...
...that often characterize sentencing decisions in the U.S. Despite efforts at reform, much of the nation's criminal sentencing system is still based on an idiosyncratic set of decisions made by crime-busting legislatures and individual trial judges. New York State law, for example, sets extremely broad parameters for various crimes -- one to 25 years for a bank robbery, 1 1/2 to 15 years for first-degree assault -- but leaves it to the discretion of each judge to fix the actual sentence. The theory behind this system is that punishment should be tailored to such factors as the circumstances...
...increase popular support for the rally, ARAC has decided to invite speakers from various student groups such as the Women's Alliance, Bi-Gay Lesbian Students Association, Minority Students Association, and Students for Creative Action...
About 30 to 50 people from various activist student groups are expected to attend the meeting, said John G. Donaghy '90-91, who last year actively lobbied the Undergraduate Council not to reconsider ROTC's return to the Harvard campus...
Deep Throat then offered some other inside knowledge of the Organization's methods. He explained, for example, how the HDS cooks casually apply oil to various dishes. Neither of us could fathom The Organization's motive in greasing our pasta as if it were a wheel bearing rather than a plate of noodles...