Word: instruction
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...starters, the defense is saying it may not be ready to rest this week. The defense at first thought it had won a key round when Judge Lance Ito decided to instruct the jurors that they could take into account ex-detective Mark Fuhrman's "unavailability" to testify a second time. Even without telling the jurors that Fuhrman had invoked the Fifth Amendment, calling attention to his absence could further raise their suspicion of him. Prosecutor Marcia Clark appealed the ruling and, in a surprise decision, the Second District Court of Appeals ordered Ito to abandon his proposed instructions...
...that price fixing was an accepted practice at the com pany. His concern grew in February 1992, when Randall and vice chairman Michael ("Mick") Andreas, the son of the chairman, told Whitacre to begin working with Terrance Wilson, the president of the corn-processing division. Wilson, they said, would instruct him "about how ADM does business.'' But colleagues had warned Whitacre to be wary of Wilson because he was said to be involved in the price-fixing game...
...percentage of those who have smoked in the past 30 days increased 30% between 1991 and 1994. Findings such as these, combined with popular politics--polls show that even most adult smokers do not want their kids to pick up the habit--led President Clinton last week to instruct the Food and Drug Administration to draft a series of aggressive regulations to keep tobacco away from teenagers. His plan includes banning cigarette vending machines, outlawing tobacco billboards within 1,000 feet of playgrounds and schoolyards, restricting magazine advertising, requiring the tobacco industry to pour $150 million into a public education...
...much-acclaimed book Beyond the Ivory Tower, former Harvard president Derek C. Bok outlined the reasons why an institution of higher learning should instruct its youth in ethics...
...adds, lawyers "showboat, even without cameras." Journalists fear that the twin decisions to bar cameras from the Smith and Klaas trials set a dangerous precedent. "The O.J. thing is an aberration," says Wade Ricks, a CNN field producer. "Trials can be handled in a thoughtful manner so that they instruct, enlighten and entertain." And Jane Kirtley of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press maintains that had the public not seen the shaky prosecution case in the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, the subsequent acquittal would have provoked an outcry. "[Trials are] the public's business," she says...