Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Butts won a verdict of $3,060,000 which was later reduced in federal court to $460,000 and accepted by all parties...
...communicate; it stems from "a very strong drive for personal power-especially independent power-which pushes him away from reliance on any one else." In council, Nixon listens attentively and then "retires to his chambers, where he may spend hours in complete solitude" before he "emerges and pronounces the verdict." It is, says Barber, "the lonely seclusion adopted consciously as a way of deciding that stands out in Nixon's personal-relations style." This style has already produced a number of "presidential stumbles," among them the rejection of John Knowles for the post of Assistant Secretary for Health...
...refuses to cast a guilty vote, "it's a hung jury and they're the winners." Then the judge's charge to the jury. "You'll hear all the conditions that have to be met before the jury can return a guilty verdict," said Mosley. "You'll wonder how anyone is ever found guilty...
...motion to have his principal investigator, Detective Joseph Price, removed from the courtroom on the pretext that they might call him as a witness. The book also strongly implies that judges are often favorably disposed toward sustaining defense objections, perhaps partly to avoid the embarrassment of having the verdict set aside later because of an error in procedure...
Whatever the verdict, the Al Aqsa blaze was a disturbing reminder of how deep are the emotions that divide Arab and Israeli-and how formidable an obstacle the control of Jerusalem is to any Middle Eastern settlement...