Word: length
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...station broke its own record for the length of an orgy, by playing all of Mozart's works in chronological order, a feat which took 204 hours...
...discipline is doubly impressive because staging conditions are spotty. In Baltimore, for example, the newly poured ice was thin and brittle: in rehearsal, Boitano's skates broke through to the concrete beneath. The length and configuration of the ice vary from show to show, as do locations of entrances and exits and placement of key lighting elements...
Some legal scholars were as shocked as the defense team by the length of the jail time. "Wow! I'm surprised," said Harry First, a New York University law professor who specializes in white-collar cases. "I was expecting five years just based on what other people have gotten." Declared Columbia law professor Harvey Goldschmid: "The message being sent is that you've got to play within the rules of the game. White-collar crime will be taken seriously and sentenced in a serious...
Milken has the right to appeal on grounds that the presentencing hearing violated his rights by introducing charges that had already been dropped. But legal experts saw little hope for that strategy. "There is no right to appeal on the length of a sentence," says Columbia law professor John Coffee Jr. "They may try to challenge the constitutionality of the hearing, but I'm certain they will be unsuccessful...
...smugness of Czechoslovaks may stem from the fact that, along with Hungarians, they are relatively free to travel. Not so for others: although the Iron Curtain has crumbled along the entire length of the old East-West divide, many East Europeans find their freedom of movement as curtailed as ever. It is no longer a question of obtaining a passport and an exit permit from a suspicious communist regime. Now the problem for Poles, Bulgarians and Romanians is to obtain visas to the West or even permits to visit one of the other countries in Eastern Europe. Says Andrzej Misiok...