Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take root in the flintiest soil. Even killing ground. While the national debate about the death penalty goes on, the Texas Senate last week passed a bill to make the method of execution in Texas "injection of a substance in a quantity to cause death." Electric chairs now wait for the some 58 inmates on Texas' death row, and Representative Ben Grant, who sponsored the original assembly bill, explains: "We've gone from stoning to the cross to the guillotine and now we need a more modern method. The current ritual of burning a person to death...
...exception rather than the rule." But without joint efforts by law enforcement agencies at all levels of government, Aronwald and other investigators fear, organized crime can never be attacked successfully. He adds: "You've got to be ballsy. You've got to be aggressive. You can't wait until they come to you." A successful assault will probably require...
Rick Pearce led off with a single, stole second, and scored when Charlie Santos-Buch's fly ball wasn't even judged by the Northeastern center fielder. Santos-Buch didn't wait around long, as Stenhouse then cranked his first four-bagger of the game to make it 5-2. Mark Bingham then reached second on a two-base error and was singled in by Burke St. John...
During the talks Carter will have at his side only Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal; the other leaders will also be limited to their foreign and finance ministers. Other aides, including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, will wait in an adjoining room. When the particular expertise of one of them is needed, the head of state will push a button by his chair. A red light will flash in the subordinates' area on a board numbered 1 through 8, indicating which leader needs assistance...
With the long-heralded Polavision system, Polaroid moves into a market whose potential has been limited by all the fuss attending conventional home movies: the wait for an exposed reel to come back from the developer, setting up a projector and screen, threading film, dimming lights, pulling everyone away from the television set long enough to watch, then putting everything away again. When compared with sales in the giant amateur-still-photography market, home movie sales are small change; annual camera sales have declined from about 1 million units in 19-72 to around 650,000 last year. But Land...