Word: documentable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Attorneys for the town of Brookline filed a petition to overturn Fierra's decision, but Dr. John G. Hermos, spokesman for the Brookline opponents said yesterday he is not optimistic about the appeal's chances. He said that although the petition is "an excellent document," he is "not particularly hopeful" that it will succeed, given DEQE's "track record...
...appearance of two new books to document Ted Bundy's gruesome career reminds us again that murderers are celebrities to be merchandised to satisfy our rapacious demand for the bizarre. One, Seattle Times reporter Richard Larson's The Deliberate Stranger, smacks of naked opportunism, while the other, The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rules, is mesmerized by how a man variously described as "compassionate," "charismatic," "Kennedyesque," and a "wonderful human being" could do the things Ted Bundy...
...legal code of Western Civilization and the Common Law of the United States." But that did not sway many members of the high court, who themselves sit in a courtroom decorated with artists' renderings of the Commandments. "The preeminent purpose," ruled the majority, was "plainly religious," because the document is "undeniably a sacred text" for Jews and Christians...
...formal U.S. response to Iranian conditions for releasing the 52 American hostages. Two days earlier, a U.S. delegation, led by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, had flown to Algiers with a carefully formulated written statement of the American position. Acting as go-betweens, Algerian officials received the document and delivered it to Tehran. At week's end the chaotic regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini was still mulling over its next move. Whatever that might be, there was little hope now that the hostages would be freed in the immediate future. At Wiesbaden, West Germany, staffers...
...categories of petroleum products. One of the alleged masterminds was the multimillionaire oil company owner Bruno Musselli, 55, who has reportedly fled to Switzerland. Petroleum taxes in Italy are graduated; the tax on gasoline, for instance, is 30 times higher than that on heating oil. By forging the identifying document of a shipment -or, in some cases, switching the oil-refiners and distributors could pocket the illegal tax benefits. Then, said investigators, they would bribe Guardia officers, politicians, inspectors and truckers to keep quiet...