Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snazzy, Upper East Side apartment on his $32,000 salary. And feel sorry for the guy whenever he ventures into a restaurant. Poor Ted just can't have a normal meal out. He sees Joanna for the first time in 18 months, gets fired, learns the court's verdict--all in chic, midtown restaurants. It's a wonder he keeps going...
...they counted up their season's grosses, moviemen, like retailers everywhere, delivered their verdict: it was a good season, but not the best. Audiences were as fickle as ever, and with ticket costs approaching and sometimes surpassing $5, they were not about to stand in line for anything less than guaranteed entertainment...
More typical of the '70s was the repeated theme of greed and corruption. In one poem, W.H. Auden described the '30s as "a low, dishonest decade." That verdict would apply to numerous episodes in the '70s: the various thuggeries of Watergate, the offenses that led Spiro Agnew to resign, Lockheed's worldwide bribery, the office employment policies of Wayne Hays. One of the more bizarre spin-offs of Watergate was its literary industry; almost everyone, good guys and bad guys alike, the Deans, Haldemans, Jaworskis, Ehrlichmans, Colsons and so on, sat down at tape recorder...
After the four clergymen left Iran, the Ayatullah's Revolutionary Council considered dropping its plans for an international grand jury to investigate U.S. activities in Iran during the 25-year rule of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The tribunal is intended by the Iranians to arrive at a predetermined verdict: condemnation of the Shah and of the U.S. But some Western diplomats believe that Khomeini would then order the release of the hostages...
...season commences with four straight away games, starting Monday night at Brown--the college, not the presidential candidate. The verdict on the McLaughlin campaign will be in at about the same time as on Kennedy, February 26, when Dartmouth comes to the IAB and the voters in New Hampshire go to the polls...