Word: indictment
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...decline in verbal SAT scores does not have to indict either the schools or the students. Educational efforts of the past decade have shifted toward a more analytic type of learning at the expense of a large vocabulary of twelve-letter words. Unfortunately, it seems that America's primary means of judging her youth's intelligence has not changed to evaluate more fairly these differently educated minds. The SAT tests a worthless ability-that of memorizing words you will rarely use in high school, college or later life, unless, of course, you are employed writing...
...Federal Judge John J. Sirica ruled that most of two and part of a third had nothing to do with the break-in and need not be given to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. His office had subpoenaed them as evidence for the grand jury that will decide whether to indict more people in the Watergate case...
Sirica himself has been listening to subpoenaed tapes to determine which parts can be turned over to Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and the grand jury. Jaworski and the grand jury sought them as evidence in determining whether to indict more people in the Watergate case. Last week Sirica delivered to Jaworski a single reel of tape, which contained conversations regarding Watergate excerpted from two presidential tapes...
...State of New York has spend $3 million in tax money to indict sixty participants in the Attica revolt on 1300 separate counts. Some of those indicted are in danger of receiving the penality...
...close of the century, Economist Thorstein Veblen could already indict those gods for both "conspicuous consumption of valuable goods" and, more significantly, "conspicuous wastefulness." In the Twentieth Century, consumption and waste seemed wedded, the nuptials attended by such as Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, whose profligate inventions spurred cheap consumption. Even the Great Depression could not shake the habits of acquisition. F.D.R.'s reference to "the more abundant life" was too enticing to examine. So were the now forgotten promises of the Fair Deal, the New Frontier and the Great Society...