Word: violent
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Washington does not believe last week's violent eruptions mean that the Shah is likely to step aside - or be ousted. "It could get nasty or it could settle down," says a U.S. intelligence official. "But we don't feel that he is threatened or has lost control." Still, the U.S. is concerned over the recent events and the dangers they pose for the West. The Administration has been careful not to upset what one State Department official calls "our most complex relationship." The reason is simple enough: few countries in the world are as important to the U.S. strategically...
...patients. "It cost a hell of a lot of money and time to go through the appeals process, and we wouldn't do it for the purpose of delaying," he says. The hospital argued in its brief to the Court that patients' health could suffer if they heard violent arguments about unions, or if they read what he terms "scurrilous" pamphlets questioning the quality of Beth Israel's health care...
...Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that these stars "may well be orbiting a black hole with the mass of a thousand suns." Still other candidates lie far beyond the Milky Way. At least two galaxies, known as M87 and NGC6251 in astronomy catalogues, seem to be undergoing violent upheavals, quite possibly because of black holes inside them...
According to general relativity, such violent activity as stellar collapse and the collision of certain types of black holes should release gravity waves. These waves are to the gravitational force what light and radio waves are to the electromagnetic force...
Another problem concerns the length of sentences. Alaska Attorney General Avrum Gross says his decision to abolish plea bargaining was strongly influenced by a 1975 case in which a "violent killer" plea-bargained a murder charge into manslaughter and was promptly released, since he had already served 18 months while awaiting trial. Instead of violent criminals getting tougher sentences under the ban, only drug offenders and people accused of minor property crimes ended up going to jail, more frequently or for longer terms. "The ones who really got socked were the low-risk offenders," says Clarke, "the ones with...