Staggers' lawyer, Kelly M. Barrett, said during a detention hearing on Tuesday that Staggers has an "extensive history" with substance use and addiction, according to the New Haven Register.
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He staggers into a field and prepares to off himself.
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Staggers served through 1980, and Dingell took over from there.
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The youth beats his fists against his temples and staggers off
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Hitting an enemy's weakness staggers it, effectively canceling its next turn.
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The wounded protester gets up and staggers away, grasping his chest.
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But recognizing the societal gains post-Staggers Act is not enough.
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Disoriented, Charlie staggers from the car as the arrive at their destination.
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Focused staggers session times so each client can meet with staff individually.
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His phone drenched, Tsoi staggers to the left, only to be hit again.
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Even if the GroKo staggers on, the chancellor's days at the top seem numbered.
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The tribal council recently passed legislation, for instance, that staggers the minor's fund payouts.
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She staggers to her feet and tries to get something to staunch Villanelle's wound.
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Meanwhile, the ship of state staggers off course in the eyes of the world.
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Even if the "grand coalition" staggers on, Mrs Merkel should not hang around for long.
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So she staggers off-stage in the middle of a song, explaining nothing to anyone.
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When he staggers home, his wife (a bouffanted Zoe Kazan) is nowhere to be found.
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Under the largely deregulatory Staggers Act, however, the STB can order switching in certain circumstances.
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Under Warren's plan, the amount of debt cancellation also staggers as people earn more money.
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And now, thousands upon thousands more have been leaving each week as the island staggers.
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But as Donald Trump's presidency staggers to life, intense discord and fury are battering the capital.
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Dom returns fire from within and the attacker staggers back into the middle of the street.
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In places the story staggers under the weight of unwieldy plot mechanics and gratuitous emotional explication.
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He staggers his deployments with Sarah's to avoid being away from Michael at the same time.
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"His body's on E," Gbaja-Biamila says, right before Bynum staggers, somehow, through one more impossible step.
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The boy who staggers away from the screen as if emerging from a particularly punishing roller coaster.
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IBM staggers >8 pct as mainframe growth tapers off, software sales slow ** Consumer Discretionary flops 2 pct.
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Though they don't offer specifics, "the production potential of these facilities staggers the imagination," the bulletin remarks.
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Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)"I've been raped," Manal Issa shouts as she staggers down a street in Beirut.
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Toby staggers out, refuses the company of his saintly girlfriend, Melissa, and insists on going home alone.
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So Mike drinks and drinks some more, tossing back beer until he staggers, stumbles and blacks out.
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The agency's authority to order reciprocal switching first came into play with the largely deregulatory Staggers Act.
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Consistent with the deregulatory intentions of the Staggers Act, the bar for regulatory intervention was set high.
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As the liberal order staggers, China is building an extensive network of influence that will inhibit its recovery.
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Staggers has become somewhat of a star on social media with his soothing brass renditions making the rounds.
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She staggers out of the woods, bloody and disoriented, with no recollection of what has happened to her.
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And it needs them now more than ever as the American democracy staggers into its next uncertain phase.
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In a room with a floor the color of blood, he staggers until he collapses; was he poisoned?
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A common option is an alternating, or running bond, pattern that staggers tiles like bricks in a wall.
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Fear of being cut out of the inner circle—the kind of disconnect that brought Ofglen low—staggers her.
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"Saturday Night Fever" staggers beneath its melodramatic subplots, but thanks to the percolating score the whole movie feels choreographed.
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Following the Staggers Act, the freight rail industry went from being on life support to an American success story.
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Outside David's room, a drunk dude in a suit staggers around with a huge patch of dirt on his sleeve.
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Stranger still is that, as his team staggers towards the milestone, I've found myself liking Collins more than ever before.
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Lalonde staggers back with a confused look on his face as the man starts getting all up in his grill.
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The subcommittee had much potential power, but Staggers, who chaired it as well as the full committee, didn't use it.
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Yet, with the largely deregulatory approach of the Staggers Act, the industry has clawed its way back to financial health.
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As the heavy regulation of the rail industry subsided following the Staggers Act, the financial condition of the industry improved.
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Everyone shouts and splashes around for a while and then staggers back up the beach toward towels and hot cocoa.
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A hammered Swede with a brisk, spiky 90's hairdo staggers past us as we are shown to our table.
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She gets up and staggers to a nearby water fountain where she takes a sip and splashes water on her face.
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The danger is that Deutsche just staggers on, cloaked in patriotism and paying only lip service to making an adequate ROE.
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The school successfully appealed to Senator Robert C. Byrd and Representative Harley Staggers, both powerful legislators that hailed from the state.
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The home side sews a new, plush side for herself and staggers around the house, leaning her pillow half into walls.
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"Like the Living Dead in a second-rate horror film, the premiership of Theresa May staggers on oblivious," The Standard wrote.
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Iranians have been protesting a sharp hike in fuel prices, as the economy staggers under the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign.
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Yet the work's melodrama, as Mr. Khan staggers, shell shocked, through this hostile space, undercuts its power, particularly in the final scene.
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Jessica Lange staggers down the aisle, participating in Castle's gimmick with a tragic mixture of irritation, embarrassment and stiff-upper-lip professionalism.
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He merely staggers in circles around the chamber, over and over and over again, the tip of his sword scratching along the stone.
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Encompassing at once a total restructuring of our environmental, energy, social and economic policy, it's so big and bold it staggers the imagination.
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"It's like a prize fighter who staggers to his feet, and just as he gets back up, he gets hit," Mr. Wexler said.
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Shutdown: A makeshift national safety net is spreading slowly and unevenly as the longest shutdown in history staggers toward its one-month mark.
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It is a grim spectacle, but the upshot of the latest bruising episode is that Mrs May staggers away bloodied to fight another round.
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In another, you're trapped underneath a table with Daniel and Virginia, as a towering demonic puppet (it's creepier than it sounds) staggers toward them.
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The front door opens and Willy staggers in, drunker than usual on paydays, and relieved that he has made it home to his family.
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But a funereal gloom has descended on them: Michael grieves the death of his wife Kate and staggers in the melancholic, yet frenetic aftermath.
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She staggers down the central street—to where, who knows, but she's moving a lot better than she was back there in the badlands.
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In response, Congress passed the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, a legislative action aimed at revitalizing the rail industry by substantially curtailing regulatory influence.
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In this case, as Paul staggers through the broken shards of the life he'd planned for himself, he bounces off colorful characters at every turn.
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But in between those fight scenes, the film moves slowly for 137 minutes, as its hero staggers through a fug of regret, weariness and pain.
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A young James Ronald Reuel Tolkien staggers across the dark, treeless ruin of no man's land as Frodo would one day stagger toward Mount Doom.
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The mergers and acquisitions that followed the Staggers Act (which deregulated the rail industry in 1980) left the nation with only four very large railroads.
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Bluebird did not confirm Zynteglo's price, but said it plans to implement a payment system that staggers costs in installments over a five-year period.
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Until now, producer Mark Saunders held onto it until Bowie's death, whereupon he shared it with Zach Staggers' father, and then in turn the internet.
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By the time Driver filmed his final scene — in which Garrupe, long unseen, staggers into view, starved by his captors — he was hallucinating from hunger.
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Of his anti-imperialist, Pan-American dream, apparently condemned to shipwreck as the remaining power of the Latin American left staggers toward its next debacle?
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Pausing briefly to throttle an assailant in a shallow pool, she staggers back to the beach where she first came ashore and begins her adventure anew.
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One of the woodsman, eyes staring white out of a face dark with soot or dirt or who knows maybe blood, staggers toward the radio station.
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The STB has generally been a conservative regulator, in keeping with the Staggers Rail Act of 28500 that partially deregulated the industry, leading to its revival.
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Yet the reader meets him as he staggers into the grime of Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal, drunk and bleeding at twenty past three in the morning.
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His physicality is front and center, and it's both impossible (John should be dead a thousand times over) and extremely human (John bleeds, staggers, reels with grief).
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Instead, we find traditional tropes of Christian suffering: Anna stretched out on the floor, arms flung wide, or torn by thorns as she staggers through a wood.
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A.'s power forward—particularly if Doc Rivers finally staggers his rotation so that Griffin gets to play some small-ball five with a spaced-out second unit?
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When Max Payne staggers his way through the stadium mission in Max Payne 3, or crawls away from the burning offices of Fabricas-Branco, one can feel his pain.
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As Woodward's sources and the Op-Ed "official" confirm, the President staggers from one self-generated crisis to the next, shedding or collecting allies as the mood strikes him.
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One who survived was Harley O. Staggers, who chaired the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee (Energy and Commerce today): then, as now, an extremely powerful committee with broad jurisdiction.
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Micron staggers, then rebounds on chipmaker's estimate that blocked China sales account for just 1 pct of revenue ** Consumer Staples, Real Estate, Telecom and Utilities advance 1.4-2.4 pct.
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But cracks have begun to appear in the region's most important alliance, as the Yemen campaign staggers toward stalemate and tactics differ over confronting Iran's behavior in the Gulf.
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His most bravura gesture comes in Act III, as Wozzeck staggers away from the pond where he has murdered Marie and into a bar full of drunkenly dancing figures.
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However, the Staggers Act never intended reciprocal switching to function as mandatory access at regulated prices, but rather as a mechanism to remedy blatantly anticompetitive actions by rail companies.
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Yet, growing the regulatory state in the rail industry — which was almost destroyed by regulation prior to the Staggers Act — is exactly what the STB now seeks to do.
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Meanwhile, federal agents made a third arrest last week and charged Quentin Staggers, a local advocate for the homeless, with possession with intent to distribute synthetic cannabinoids and conspiracy.
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Menlo Park (CNN Business)In a rooftop garden at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters, a six-legged robot named Daisy is making chittering noises as it staggers on the sandy ground.
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The ECB is all but certain to ease policy further on Thursday, with the biggest question whether it staggers its moves over several months or opts for a big bang.
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The idea that a man would politely inquire about the political party of a group of men practicing "America's pastime" and then open fire based on the answer, staggers me.
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Brent Harris wears his crown confidently as the spry and glib King Berenger — at least until the man begins to break up physically, and believably staggers into infirmity and infantilism.
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Struck by tumbling rocks and epiphanies — murder is bad, monarchy loves murder — the ash-covered Arya staggers to her feet, looks over and sees a lone white horse, mane wafting.
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He gets up, walks into a wall, turns around, stumbles and falls over in a pattern repeated for several hours as he staggers through the house in a zombie-like state.
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From the very first shot, Nicolas Pesce's "The Eyes of My Mother" unsettles as a broken woman staggers along a deserted country road before collapsing in front of an oncoming truck.
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And it's got a breezy sense of plotting, stringing numerous threads together to create something that sneaks up behind you and staggers you with its profundity when you least expect it.
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However: When a party repeatedly attempts suicide and somehow staggers bleeding into political victories instead, it is reasonable to doubt the rival party's ability to capitalize even on the worst of blunders.
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ECB policymakers are all but certain to ease policy further during a meeting on Thursday, with the biggest question whether it staggers its moves over several months or opts for a big bang.
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"Obsidian Tear" loses focus after this, in an epilogue in which Mr. Ball staggers wildly to his own fall in dim, red light as the dense string sounds fade away into birdlike delicacy.
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I'll explain: The College Board staggers the release of its Advanced Placement test scores state-by-state, presumably to control the overall number of students who access its servers at any given time.
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Those areas that have the highest concentration of people using Facebook's services during peak hours from home are also spread out by time zone, Mr. Zuckerberg said, which staggers the swell of traffic.
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At the beginning of this week's episode, Claire staggers ashore in nothing but her battered underlayers, including a corded hem on her petticoat so heavy it must have been trying to drown her.
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Noticing you could lay the former and top of the latter in a way that staggers the vowels and consonants nicely, I set out to build a grid with these two seed answers.
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While low crude prices have hobbled exporters Nigeria and Angola this year and African growth staggers to its slowest rate in more than two decades, Senegal's economy will expand by over 21998 percent.
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McWhorter first staggers you with a glittering analogy, and then, once you are off-guard, he bombards you with so many (brilliant) examples that resistance is both useless and out of the question.
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" The cabbie, who has the gelled hair, tinted aviator glasses and raspy voice of a low-level mafioso from New Jersey, staggers backwards as though he's been shot: "I've been coming here for ten years!
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Sen. Marco RubioMarco Antonio RubioTurkey says soldier killed despite cease-fire in Syria White House staggers after tumultuous 48 hours Erdoğan got the best of Trump, experts warn MORE (R-Fla.) on Saturday criticized Sen.
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Cox makes bravura use of long takes and real time — most remarkably in the six-minute shot in which a wounded Pedro staggers off the road and into the desert to find his dying comrade.
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B. staggers downstairs, and we head to the gym for a morning workout with A. and M. I will get online later and take care of website stuff and answer emails all day from my phone.
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But if the Supreme Court push staggers out of the gate, the Trump team could face an early political crisis on two fronts that will cast doubt on its capacity to enact its ambitious congressional agenda.
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UNIVERSITY SIEGE STAGGERS ON A stand-off at Polytechnic University entered its seventh day on Sunday, with the campus surrounded by police as some protesters hid out on the sprawling grounds roamed by first aid workers.
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So as she staggers back to her own house, covered in the blood of an ex-boyfriend whose throat she managed to slit in the process, she falls into her husband's arms, once again in complete control.
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When America staggers to the polls on Tuesday, it will mark the end of a political season that has felt at times as if Hieronymus Bosch were directing episodes of Crossfire crosscut with The Anna Nicole Show.
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Video shot by a soldier shows rescuers shouting "Thank God" as a man is pulled from a space under the mosque&aposs flattened roof sometime on Monday and he staggers away from the ruins supported by soldiers.
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Mr. Zimmerman, a young playwright just coming into his own, carefully staggers his revelations as to the causes and consequences of his narrator's singular approach to mourning, so I'm going to tread carefully in describing the plot.
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The ECB is all but certain to ease policy further on Thursday, but whether it staggers its moves over several months or tops market expectations and opts for a big bang will be crucial for investors' immediate reaction.
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On the other end of the spectrum, the world's biggest FLNG project, the giant Prelude plant being specially built by Royal Dutch Shell for deployment off the coast of Australia, staggers in at a cost of $12 billion.
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Recorded in 1985 during production of the oft-forgotten film Absolute Beginners, the audio was shared by record producer Mark Saunders and the family of Zach Staggers (of punk band The So So Glos) shortly after Bowie's death.
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When the contralto speaks of her love pains, Ms. Axelsen staggers slightly, as if in physical distress; when the two lovers' voices express sadness, the dancers cover their faces and curve forward, as if weighed down by emotion.
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There is only losing, at a cost that staggers every dimension on all sides — in lives, in money, and in the squandered opportunity to do anything better with our collective time and resources on this already beset planet.
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Video shot by a soldier on Monday shows the rescuers shouting "Thank God" as the man is pulled out from a space under the Jabal Nur mosque&aposs flattened roof and staggers away from the ruins supported by soldiers.
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Spoelstra has tried 4.53 different players in the starting lineup this season, but not the Johnsons, whom he usually subs in at the six-minute mark of the first and third quarters and staggers the rest of each half.
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He staggers, malnourished and dazed, out of the Stockholm countryside, babbling that he's escaped from a sadist he calls the Sandman, and that his sister, Felicia, also missing for the same period, is alive but still being held captive.
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Even with so much stylized pandemonium, it can be hard to overlook how frequently Belladonna staggers over the line between transgressive pop-porn and the kind of outright misogyny that mars so many otherwise righteous female-driven revenge narratives.
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The drunk is still snoring, so she kisses her baby goodbye, asks Gran to take good care of him, heaves the drunk over her shoulder, grabs up the gin bottle, and staggers away, the dashboard binging and bonging louder than ever.
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They were the opening-night heroes — partly for artistic reasons (it was a magnificently measured reading, rich in texture, grand in scope), but also for holding firm while everything around them at the coliseum staggers from one crisis to the next.
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In terms of industry background, after decades of decline, the U.S. railroad industry was revitalized by a major federal policy change nearly 40 years ago, when Congress passed and President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Staggers Rail Act of 1980.
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A makeshift national safety net, stitched together by private businesses, banks, local governments, organized labor and charitable organizations, is spreading slowly and unevenly across the United States as the longest federal shutdown in history staggers to its one-month mark.
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Video from an audience member shows Perry appearing slumped on a portion of the stage at the Ford Amphitheater on the Coney Island Boardwalk before he staggers behind a wall on stage, where members of the New York police and fire departments attended to him.
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" De Havilland has lived in Paris since the 1950s, and in this brief and breezy book she writes things like: "Of course the thing that staggers you when you first come to France is the fact that all the French speak French — even the children.
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Since the passage of the Staggers Rail Act in 1980 – in which I was an active participant on behalf of captive coal shippers – the STB has allowed the parties to use a voting trust in 144 transactions, and disallowed a voting trust in none.
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On stormy nights, my husband gets up to force a tablet of dog-strength Xanax down Clark's throat, and for an hour we will both lie in the dark, sleepless, while the dog staggers around the house in a state of now-drunken anxiety.
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Satirists pounced, lampooning the song with lyrics that depicted a man who staggers home drunk and sleeps well past "the dawn's early light" — that light through which Key had seen an American flag still flying above the fort that had repulsed the British invasion.
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Since Simmons is probably the closest thing to "The Next LeBron" we've seen, it makes sense to talk about how devastating he can potentially be (jump shot or not) with a well-rounded, imposing, back-to-the-basket attack, especially when Brett Brown staggers him and Embiid.
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A mopey yet gorgeous-looking wallow in the final years of the literary giant Oscar Wilde, "The Happy Prince" staggers around Europe with one eye on the grave and the other on the kinds of sorry mischief an unrepentant hedonist like Wilde could get up to.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) is all but certain to ease policy further on Thursday and set the path for the Federal Reserve when it meets next week, but the biggest question is whether the ECB staggers its moves over several months or opts for a big bang.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT, July 25 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Thursday: The European Central Bank is all but certain to ease policy further, with the biggest question whether it staggers its moves over several months or opts for a big bang.
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Still, the movie allows time for the camp enchantment that is Irene Ware's dance interpretation of "The Raven" or the scene in which Karloff, confronted with his new face, staggers around a mirrored room reprising the growl and herky-jerky gestures he developed to play the Frankenstein monster.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Prudent Financial Management: Lai Fung maintained its low leverage, measured using total debt/property assets, at 26%-28% in the first half of financial year 2016 (1HFY673) and FYE15 ending 31 July, as it staggers its property sale to supplement its main business of real-estate leasing.
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He staggers across the mosh pit that he's inadvertently created for himself a hundred or so yards from Julian Casablancas' mic, breaking to sing along to the most important lines and make eye contact with strangers, launching every lyric into their eyes as though they'd been best friends for years.
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Karaoke night at the Don't Care Bar: A worker staggers, following the lyric To a lit-up song, and outside A stranger chews their ears off About the Green Desert: fields of soy and corn And soy and corn and soy, Devoid of flowers, and the bees going damn drunk with hunger .
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Whereas nearly 18933 years ago, the settlers raced under perfect skies across a promising landscape of tall prairie grass, blooming dogwoods and "primordial trees uncut," Anderson staggers down the shoulder of Highway 62, past extinct strip malls, abandoned churches, a yard sale of animal cages and a Rottweiler straining against its chain.
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I have a vision of my own now: in her dark cell, Christina stands from her prayers and staggers to her bed, where she is, in the words of the chroniclers, held fast in the sickness of death: she lies stretched out after the manner of corpses, and passes to the immortal age of ages.
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Sure, Helen may be pummelling those drums for no reason at all, and Betty and Dot may be playing a guitar line that staggers and stops, but there's a desire to be better, to actually be liked by the kids at the local high school who would throw soda cans at them when they played in concert.
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Add to that a pretty impressive long take that follows him around the battlefield as he staggers toward the scorpion and his earlier suggestion that Jaime should get the hell out of Dodge, and you have the one guy who seems to realize that while the Lannisters have been winning a lot of late, they don't have much room to get over-confident.
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Ryder is in permanent high pitch as Will's mother Joyce; an alcoholic sheriff named Chief Jim Hopper staggers into his action-hero role; funny science teacher Mr. Clarke gives the kids a crash course in theoretical physics; and character actors Cara Buono and Ross Partridge pick up the slack as a stalwart mother of three and Joyce's sleazebag of an ex-husband, respectively.
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On Wednesday morning Zach Staggers (of the fantastic Bay Ridge punk band So So Glos) shared six amazing minutes of David Bowie impersonating a number of his peers, including Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and Bruce Springsteen (the second impression almost sounds like he's doing Bob Dylan, but it's actually T. Rex's Marc Bolan; the only one that really misses the mark is his rendition of Neil Young).
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On "Charcoal Baby" — one of a pair of new songs he released this week, in advance of his forthcoming album "Negro Swan" — he juxtaposes lush singing, especially that of his collaborator, EVA, with emotional scars ("No one wants to be the odd one out at times/No one wants to be the Negro swan"); he pairs a crisp drum track with a guitar that wobbles and staggers.
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Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenSenate GOP blocks three election security bills for second day House passes bill taking aim at anonymous shell companies Senate Democrats to force vote Wednesday to overturn IRS rules on SALT deduction cap MORE (D-Ore.) and Marco RubioMarco Antonio RubioHouse passes bill taking aim at anonymous shell companies Turkey says soldier killed despite cease-fire in Syria White House staggers after tumultuous 48 hours MORE (R-Fla.).
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In the video, as different beings emerge from the same physical tapestry, their ranging states are revealed in their movements, rather than their identical appearances; mania careens and pirouettes high speed in reverse with a burning shawl, depression staggers bleeding gradually out of her clutched stomach in slow motion, apathy writhes invisible to the world on the floor, and a re-emerging central self attempts to shepard them all back together, gracefully balancing flames on her arms like a human candlebra.
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If Paul can sustain his efficiency and aggressiveness (the Clippers are 14-4 when he attempts at least 15 shots, and since March 1st he's logging 50-40-90 shooting splits), Griffin can dominate his individual matchup against Draymond Green on both ends (and increase his usage in pick-and-roll and transition opportunities), Jordan controls the glass, and Rivers staggers his lineups at all times, the Clippers have a chance to pull off one of the great second-round upsets in recent NBA history.
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"The Source of Self-Regard" is a book of essays, lectures and meditations, a reminder that the old music is still the best, that in this time of tumult and sadness and continuous war, where tawdry words are blasted about like junk food, and the nation staggers from one crisis to the next, led by a president with all the grace of a Cyclops and a brain the size of a full-grown pea, the mightiness, the stillness, the pure power and beauty of words delivered in thought, reason and discourse, still carry the unstoppable force of a thousand hammer blows, spreading the salve of righteousness that can heal our nation and restore the future our children deserve.
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Listening to your voice, I hear the old music again—the Dells, Diablos, Drifters, Flamingos, Spaniels, Five Satins, Midnighters, Soul Stirrers—and it takes me back to those voices on the corner, in church, on records, radio, teaching me the fires in my belly, dance steps in my feet, the hungers, fun, sadness, loves lost and found all around me I only half understood and still don't, old man that I am today, but yearn so badly, teen-ager and now, to stay part of, that swirling, full-to-the-brim, overflowing life that sometimes fills me up, sways and staggers me, sweeps me off my feet, that elusive, loud, shaking, shouting world that could sometimes go silent and disappear, here then abruptly gone, passing me by as if I were nothing, nobody, less than a speck of dust or a tear no one sees falling, all of that, and more bitter and more sweet because, like you, Freddie Jackson, I was a colored boy and my world, my people, surrounded by others not colored, others inexplicably mean, crude, intimidating, evil as death.
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