Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate' s verdict on the controversial nominee could affect the course of American law and society well into the 21st century. -- Bork' s intellectual odyssey has led him from socialism to an iconoclastic conservatism. -- The judge has criticized many landmark decisions, but would he try to overturn them? -- How changed court majority might affect abortion. See NATION...
...sort of electoral verdict that sitting Presidents dread. In balloting that is certain to complicate the life of Argentine President Raul Alfonsin between now and the end of his six-year term in 1989, the opposition Peronists captured 16 of the 21 governorships at stake and swept away the ruling Radical Civic Union's absolute majority in the 254-seat lower house of Congress. The Radicals now hold 117 seats, the Peronists an unnerving...
...comedies I'm Not Rappaport and Social Security played across the nation into the summer. For audiences, the crucial but often unresearchable question is how a touring version measures up to its Broadway forerunner. Based on a sampling of half a dozen offerings, including two versions of Cats, the verdict is mostly favorable. Sets may be simpler, lighting more rudimentary, and the miked-up sound systems uniformly lousy. The more a show was shaped to fit a particular space and circumstances, the clumsier it looks shoehorned -- or stretched -- into a new configuration each week. But when it comes to performance...
...plunge, but he woke in the middle of one night last week convinced that he should not. So Thursday morning, he activated what he called Operation Red Light -- the distribution of a no-go statement. His wife Colleen phoned his mother Elizabeth in Perry, Ga., with word of the verdict. "I'm happy with any decision he makes," the elder Mrs. Nunn said. "I am not disappointed...
...worth of Colt options, an investment that netted nearly $1.5 million in profits when the project became public knowledge. The crimes were discovered during a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of the unusually heavy trading in Colt prior to the refinancing announcement. Grossman will appeal last week's verdict...