Word: willard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last April, Evan Mecham became the first U.S. Governor to be impeached in 59 years. Last week it looked as if the impolitic Arizona politician might also be facing a prison term. But after a little more than six hours of deliberation, a jury acquitted Mecham and his brother Willard of charges that they violated election laws by concealing a $350,000 campaign loan...
...should bear the burden of the common good? As often as not, neighborhoods are rising up to resist responsibility, and in some cases are turning to violence. "Too often we assume that the human being can achieve a good life without attending to the collective good," says Dr. Willard Gaylin, head of the Hastings Center for ethics in Briarcliff...
...simply selects the proper setting on the camera's control panel, points and clicks. The lens will zoom in or out to ensure that the subject's head and shoulders are well framed in the viewfinder. "If you want to take portraits of people at a party," says David Willard, a senior vice president at Olympus, "the camera will automatically zoom to give you same- size shots of everyone...
...observation of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. That move was followed up with a yearlong string of gaffes and biased statements that managed to alienate blacks, women, gays and, finally, the Governor's fellow Republicans. Mecham's reputation hit bottom last month, when he and his brother Willard were indicted by a state grand jury for willfully concealing a $350,000 loan made to his election campaign by a real estate developer. Both pleaded not guilty on all charges, and face a criminal trial in March...
Other conventions: an anchorman is expected to sit behind a desk and to hold in his hands a stack of papers, even though he is actually reading from a TelePrompTer beside the camera. NBC's Willard Scott does not dispense the weather until he has showed snapshots of 100-year-old people and wished them a happy birthday. If Scott omits the birthdays, the net of expectation thrums a little oddly...