Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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During the conference call, representatives for all three parties agreed that MATEP would present its testimony to the DEQE by July 21. DEQE officials and community groups will have until August 15 to respond to that testimony...
...importance of appearances and tokenism, I was a hard-headed pragmatist in the best free-enterprise tradition. Gifts were rewards for behavior I approved of; on occasion I would inform my younger brother that if he didn't give me the baseball bat he would get no birthday present. The implication being that Christmas might be equally as barren...
...area is fragile. More than half of the present Arab heads of state, notes Levy, have reached power by forcibly eliminating their predecessors. Also, during the past decade, Arabs have fought Arabs in numerous bloody wars. The region's stability is further undermined by the traumatic changes brought on by oil wealth, such as rapid economic development, huge riches and a massive influx of foreign labor. These have caused violent strains in Muslim orthodoxy, as reflected in the attack on the Sacred Mosque of Mecca and the Iranian revolution...
...majority agreed that the informant's conduct amounted to interrogation, and since Henry was in custody, he was entitled to have a lawyer present. The test, devised 16 years ago in Massiah vs. U.S., is whether the informant "deliberately elicited" the statements. In a dissent, Justice Harry Blackmun complained that even evidence obtained from a " 'negligent' triggering of events" will now be inadmissible. But liberal scholars were pleased. Said the University of Michigan's Yale Kamisar: "After years of moaning about keeping out reliable evidence, the Chief Justice writes an opinion making Massiah stronger than ever...
Gerulaitis dropped his racquet in amazement. Some 10,000 fans, grateful to be present at the miracle of the parting of Borg's lips, gave him a standing ovation. "Bjorn does have emotions, but he has a special talent for masking them," says Gerulaitis...