Word: writ
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly, Wilson recalled that Illinois' abortion law asserts in a preamble that life begins at conception. In an application probably never dreamed of by the right-to-life movement, Wilson decided to "represent the couple's unborn baby, seeking its release through a writ of habeas corpus on the theory that it had been deprived of liberty without having done anything wrong. Before Carol was released last week on other grounds, Wilson had tried his creative argument on a local judge and the Illinois Supreme Court...
...difficult to sell." Leonard Reedy, who farms 3,000 acres in Clyde, Kans., reports that high interest rates and low crop prices are killing farmers in his region. Says he: "We've got to do something to get prices up or else have another Grapes of Wrath book writ about us." Joe Lewis has owned a small musical instrument store in Atlanta for more than ten years, but last week he closed up shop for the last time, saying: "I survived the last recession, but this time I'm not making...
With little public notice, a judge in Switzerland, responding to claims lodged by Swiss lawyers representing Iran's central bank, ordered the Shah's villa in the ski resort of St. Moritz to be held under a writ of attachment barring its sale or alteration. The Shah had paid some $2 million for it in 1968. Iranian officials claimed that they have gained similar court sanctions against 13 other assets of the Shah's family in Switzerland, including a $440,000 Geneva apartment owned by Princess Ashraf, the Shah's sister...
...float in the tub, or smell of perfume when they are scratched, or assume the shapes of trains, or pop up with paper cutouts, can take the place of stories that children need to frame their perceptions of life. "It is vir tually impossible to earn a living at writ ing for children unless you're well estab lished," says Arnold Lobel, 47. "The only people who can still do it are us old guys...
...legal reforms include restoration of the writ of habeas corpus. Unfortunately, that comes too late to help Chun's political enemies, like Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung, who is now appealing a death sentence on sedition charges...