Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imposing marble-and-mahogany chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court seems too stately a place for dropping a political bombshell. Yet last week, while opposing bands of demonstrators taunted each other with noisy chants and protest signs on the plaza in front of the court, that is precisely what happened. Seven of the nine Justices emerged from behind the red velvet curtain and took their seats. In the hushed chamber, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist read in his singsong, quivering voice excerpts of the long-awaited decision of the divided court in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services...
...discovered that Bracy was wrong about how some alarms worked. In the spring of 1987, however, investigators were convinced that Bracy's confession was authentic. They saw the Moscow case much the way a detective might see a locked-room mystery in which the only occupant of a sealed chamber has been murdered. "We assumed it had happened," recalls one leader of the embassy investigation. "So there must have been...
Across Western Europe, the biggest gains were won by Green parties, which nearly doubled their representation, to 39 delegates. The environmentalists thus hold the balance of power in the 518-seat chamber, ensuring that their issues will be high on the European Community's agenda. West Germany's well- established Green contingent will be joined by delegations from other E.C. countries, including France and Italy. In Britain the Greens captured an impressive 15% of the vote but no seats because Britain does not have a proportional-repre sentation system...
...time when chamber music seems to be enjoying something of a boom, the Kronos following rivals that of a rock band. The quartet gives more than 100 concerts annually, to largely young, near sellout crowds, and all three of its albums (Electra/Nonesuch) have made Billboard's classical charts. In addition, a March released recording of Reich's music, which includes Different Trains, is also on the charts...
...West Bank from Columbus, Ohio, seven years ago, Waldman considers himself a part-time commando waging a messianic struggle against his Palestinian neighbors. "When I go out in my car, I'm hunting for Arabs," says the 37-year-old engineer. "I put a bullet in the chamber of my M-16 and keep it pointed out the window with the safety off." He deliberately shifts his Peugeot station wagon into low gear as he enters Palestinian villages to steady his aim in the event of attack. "There is a Jewish intifadeh now, and it can't be stopped...