Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past two years. One possible explanation for the overcrowded cells, criminologists say, is a time warp in the criminal careers of the baby-boom generation: only in the past few years have the criminal records of offenders born in the decade after World War II grown long enough to warrant prison terms...
Extra seating would be impossible because of the field size necessary. Anderson said, adding that he didn't think demand would warrant the construction of new starts...
Restoring freedom and democracy, explained President Reagan, were paramount objectives of American intervention. Consequently, Grenada Governor-General Paul Scoon's proclamation last Thursday to enact sweeping restrictions on personal and press freedoms surprised the Administration. Citing a 1968 "state of emergency" law, Scoon banned public meetings, allowed searches without warrant, and established measures to censor the press. Moreover, American troops have rounded up over a thousand Grenadian civilians suspected of sympathizing with slain Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. These detained Grenadians, questioned on their anti-Western beliefs and political activities, are kept in isolation cells under heavy guard. Relying on local...
...long-buried secrets of a misguided, misspent youth are dug up, dusted off and flung into full public view. But in Ginny Foat's case it was all too real, and far worse. Along with revelations about her barmaid-and-battered-wife past, Louisiana police dredged up a warrant for the robbery and murder of an Argentine businessman near New Orleans 18 years...
...container ship Elgaren was due to make a seven-hour stop in the port of Hamburg, U.S. officials informed their colleagues in West Germany that the ship was carrying Soviet-bound contraband. Once the ship had docked, however, a Hamburg judge turned down the formal request for a search warrant on grounds of insufficient evidence. As the deadline ticked closer, a three-member panel of the appeals court reviewed and finally reversed the earlier decision. Just seven minutes before the Elgaren was scheduled to lift anchor, anxious officials sped out to it in a launch and clambered aboard. They promptly...