Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than the Republicans on some of the critical issues of peace and prosperity. But that advantage, according to a TIME poll last week, has all but dissipated. Even where the electorate still judges the Democrats favorably, Dukakis hardly benefits. The survey conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman renders a harsh verdict on the Massachusetts Governor. Although the Democratic Party still commands more voter allegiance than the G.O.P. and although Bush remains weighed down with heavy negative baggage, Dukakis enters the campaign's final week struggling to prove himself plausible as President...
Billy Lewis Glover Jr. had been tried twice for rape, but both Dallas proceedings had ended in mistrials. Earlier this month a third jury took just 22 min. to return the verdict -- guilty...
Inside a crowded courtroom in Jerusalem, a rapt audience sat hushed as the nation's highest judges wrestled with an explosive question: Is Rabbi Meir Kahane simply too fanatical to run in Israel's Nov. 1 election? Outside, dozens of the American-born rabbi's supporters bellowed their own verdict, waving banners emblazoned with Kahane's provocative trademark, a clenched fist. Starry-eyed disciples strained to touch the man who vows to expel every last Arab from both Israel and the occupied territories. Exclaimed one young follower: "Next month we shall decide once and for all how to deal with...
...struggling between themselves over this issue--this provides a built-in check on the system that prevents either from consolidating too much power. Given the problems inherent in the choice between Congress and the president, the nation would be better off if the courts continue to avoid delivering a verdict...
...friends and complained laughingly about her husband: "He's the one who has been screaming for eight years about the bad things Reagan did to us, and now he's gone all wishy-washy and is saying things aren't so bad." If that is the final verdict of west Toledo, Bush may successfully hold on to his slim but continuing lead in the polls...