Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Responding to a 3:30 p.m. call about a "suspicious character" exiting a Northeastern office building, campus police arrested Clark Caravan, 32, when they discovered an outstanding warrant for his arrest from the Harvard Police Department...
Does the controversy over the Adams House "Oak Leaf" really warrant massive changes in College's housing system and its attendant effects on student life? No, not really, not on its own. It wasn't much of a controversy, after all--if it were, you would have read about it on these pages weeks...
Bill Clinton becomes President without the warrant of a depression that emboldened F.D.R. or the lift of economic expansion that energized L.B.J. Times are hard; they are not desperate. But it is the long shadow and the troubled legacy of the Great Society -- not its policy failures so much as its political failure -- that Clinton must overcome. While he assumes the presidency with a detailed plan for domestic change, his vision will have to be implemented on the cheap: not a Great Society but, if his luck holds, a Pretty Good Society...
...record briefings, such as presidential news conferences and press releases. Leaks, on the other hand, are unauthorized disclosures of information attributed to anonymous sources. In foreign policy, these leaks contain classified information which, if given straight to the KGB without using the media as a conduit, would warrant prosecution for espionage...
...pull the lever but won't bestir themselves? They tend to be people who are too wrapped up in their daily life to pay much attention to outside matters -- TV, sports and rock music perhaps excepted. If incessant nagging did push them into the polling booths, there is no warrant for believing it would also provoke them to study the issues and the candidates' backgrounds. At a bad best, their votes would be prompted by some irrelevant emotional factor, a candidate's age or winning smile, perhaps...