Word: put
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Last week federal Judge Robert Peckham dismissed the crew's suit, tartly noting that despite the "novel legal theory" put forth by their attorneys, it was clear the couple had no intention of being injured by the train. Said Willson's attorney, Thomas Steel: "The decision has laid to rest the idea that a person who is run over can be sued for causing distress to the person that runs over...
...give the government time to put the plan into effect, Erman declared a two-day bank holiday Jan. 2 and 3. By midweek thousands of people had gathered outside the country's bank branches, afraid that the value of their savings would evaporate. But as the value of the dollar sank to roughly the same level as before the austral's collapse, the dollar panic seemed to subside, and relieved retailers began rolling back their hasty price hikes...
Payless paydays hardly help a government win the loyalty of its citizens -- or employees. A cash squeeze was in fact one element in the pressure that Washington put on Manuel Noriega by freezing Panama's bank accounts in the U.S. But at year's end the Bush Administration had to throw that process into reverse, when the U.S.-installed administration of President Guillermo Endara was due to pay out $50 million in government salaries and had no money in the till...
...college freshman in 1925, I was sure that the Scopes trial, in which Clarence Darrow in effect made a monkey of William Jennings Bryan, had put an end to any serious debate. Even earlier, President Woodrow Wilson had confidently declared as much, and no important politician contradicted him, until, in 1980, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan won cheers from the religious right by announcing, "Evolution is only a theory" -- meaning, of course, a mere hypothesis...
...least because the rush to open up centrally planned economies has turned into a race for aid and investment. The competition, however, is hardly one among equals. Hungary, for example, is somewhat chagrined because its slow and steady revolution from above -- parliamentary elections are set for March 25 -- has put it behind Poland and Czechoslovakia in dislodging communists from the government. This pace of change has caused a partial dimming of the country's image as a pathbreaking reformer. And its position, oddly enough, seems to have worsened because of the pro-democracy upheaval in East Germany. Budapest fears that...