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...sentence, generally in the range of five years, for anyone using a gun to commit a felony. Said Brown: "By signing this bill, I want to send a clear message to every person in this state that using a gun in the commission of a serious crime means a stiff prison sentence. Whatever the circumstances, however eloquent the lawyer, judges will no longer have the discretion to grant probation even to first offenders. The philosophy of this bill is based not on sociology or Freudian theory but on simple justice...
...trip is a triumph, a fitting way to round out a life that has been spent almost entirely in patriotic duty. Most Americans who will see Hirohito can scarcely imagine the rigors of office that the Emperor knew from infancy. From the start, he was raised in a stiff, isolated world ruled by court teachers who even refused him childhood games they considered unbecoming to a Son of Heaven. Only once, after returning from his euphoric tour of Europe in 1921, did Hirohito try to step out of his court-ordered way of life. Seeking to emulate Edward, Prince...
...after cracking one to left center--in the ballpark he's a bubbling, vital being who radiates sheer, awesome promise. Now the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand is fractured and he is dead. Any sane Red Sox junkie would shake his or her head, order up another stiff one, and forget about it--think about the Baltimore Orioles and other more immediate matters. Hell, the sportswriters, who treated Rice like nothing short of an apparition from heaven above all year have cursed and moved on. He'll be back next year, but no one would be able...
Even last week Chavez charged irregularities: "Right now 20% to 30% of the workers are not voting because of fear, intimidation and threats." Apparently some stiff-arming was going on. "My foreman said if we sign with Chavez, goodbye job," worried one worker in Delano. A new five-member State Agricultural Labor Relations Board -which Teamsters and growers argue is heavily biased in favor of Chavez -will have its hands full sorting out charges of election fraud as balloting continues over the next unquiet months...
...major impact coming after the November 1976 elections-was voted down in July. Many Democrats have deep ideological objections to price rises that fatten oil-company profits. At the same time, the Democrats have no agreed strategy for forcing energy conservation and curtailing imports. Alternative ideas -rationing, import quotas, stiff taxes on energy usage-cannot survive even a congressional vote, let alone a veto...