Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...someone who has spent the better part of his professional life as a reporter, let me say that I was impressed, nay, awed at the way in which your reporter captured the intensity, majesty and viscosity of last Saturday's Crimson-Nieman tilt with the Soc. Dept...
...that ought to be abolished. Sociologists have never definitively answered the question, but the views of the American public, aroused by violent crime, seem clear: polls show that nearly two-thirds of the people favor capital punishment. Accordingly, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1972 against the arbitrary way in which capital punishment was imposed, 34 states have rewritten their death penalty laws to conform with the court's guidelines. State courts have imposed death sentences on about 500 people, nearly half of them black men and all but one of them convicted of murder. Opponents of capital...
...claiming that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment, that it is unfairly applied more often to murderers of whites than of blacks and that the jury was improperly selected. Judges called some of the arguments "frivolous" and "shams" and rejected them all. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court four times and was four times rejected...
...million in unwarranted loans for himself, family and friends. He is also charged with making false statements in his financial records and willfully misapplying bank funds. The long-expected indictment added no startling revelations to the saga of Lance's financial maneuvering-and it did not in any way directly involve President Carter-but the 71-page document portrayed in relentless detail the foundationless house of credit that Bert built...
...happen that way for a number of good reasons. One is that last week's election results could not be simplistically interpreted as a rejection of Francophone rights and ambitions. Another is that Levesque's Parti Québecois government, after 2½ mixed years in office, seems to be losing credibility with the voters. A third is that no more than 20% of Quebeckers favor outright independence for the province...