Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recent reports by Jackson's Clarion-Ledger show that the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a now defunct agency created by the state to battle desegregation, may have interfered in the jury selection for Beckwith's second trial. The newspaper found evidence that commission members relayed information about prospective jurors to Beckwith's lawyer. Assistant District Attorney Bobby DeLaughter is pushing for a new indictment, but that will not be easy. Many witnesses have died, and the murder weapon is missing...
Scooped up by the Chiefs as a second-round draft choice in 1987, Okoye averaged only 54 yds. in rushing in his first two pro seasons. But when coach Marty Schottenheimer decided to emphasize the Chiefs' ground offense this year, Okoye found his groove. The formula is simple: they give him the ball, he runs with it. "I have to work harder than anyone else," says Okoye in his Nigerian lilt, "because everybody knows more about football than me and I have to catch up." Marvels Schottenheimer: "I don't think I've ever seen anyone with the combination...
...nightmare of the new automation is the optical character reader, which shoots out 30,000 pieces of mail an hour and shows no mercy. A postal clerk has about a second to read an address and punch in the first three digits of the ZIP code, which is then translated into a bar-code symbol for sorting mail by carrier route. With no way to slow down the machine, the clerk is like Lucille Ball in her comic routine at a candy factory. One moment, Lucy is standing at the conveyor belt blithely wrapping individual candies; the next...
Score points is exactly what Rios did against Boston College, jumping to a personal high, 6 ft., 8 in., and finishing second...
...reigning 800-meter NCAA champion and All-America selection, the women should be able to match their second-place finish in last year's Heptagonal Championship. Rainey already has qualified for the NCAAs in the 800 with a time of 2:06.8 at the Harvard Invitational...