Word: standard
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...dissent, Judge White argued that the standard applied by the majority was unnecessarily restrictive. Expert testimony on Johnson's sanity had gone both ways, and U.S. Supreme Court precedent, White stated, would allow a new trial or sentencing if there was a "reasonable probability" of a different outcome had the defense lawyers not shredded their credibility at the outset. "While I share the majority's horror at this carnage," White wrote, "I cannot uphold this as an acceptable standard of representation for a defendant accused of capital murder...
...Levanon said, the Palestinians need to align their words with their actions. "The Palestinians cannot play a double game. If you would like to reach peace, you have to talk peace.... We would like to stop this dual standard," he said...
...scoring at home, you can write Microsoft Corp. next to Standard Oil and AT&T on your list of the 20th century's great monopolies. When the Justice Department squared off against Bill Gates & Co. in a Washington courtroom, it was no secret that things went badly for Bill. But even so, the findings of fact that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson handed down were stunning in their breadth and their certainty: a blunt 412-paragraph j'accuse that nails Microsoft not only on the two most critical issues--that it has monopoly control over PC operating systems and that...
...mean, it's like, today's teens, they just don't get it! Sure, for them, life is totally phine--er, phat. They are coming of age in an age that celebrates the coming of age. For every standard-issue adolescent yearning, there is a show that explores it on the WB. For each of life's cliched ironies encountered for the first time, there is a chat room to lament it on TeenGripe.com For every pimply punk buying a pop CD, another kid with a good complexion has just released a debut album. Being a teenager these days...
...Penfield Jackson's ruling on Friday. Things aren't as bleak as they seem, and the stock--depressed in recent weeks--could start to run very soon now that the bad news is out. In perverse Wall Street logic, "the cloud has been lifted," notes analyst Brian Goodstadt at Standard & Poor's. Except for Valley brats who compete with Microsoft (themselves fabulously rich), nobody really wants the stock to fail...