Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once again," said Prime Minister Bob Hawke of Australia, "TIME has scooped its competitors." While other Australian publications had been planning projects to mark the country's 200th birthday, TIME AUSTRALIA was unveiling its lavish special issue ahead of most of the pack. At a ceremony in Melbourne two weeks ago to launch the 128-page commemorative edition, Hawke declared, "In TIME AUSTRALIA, we have an example of an outstandingly successful news venture based on the world's greatest magazine, but already becoming identifiably Australian in character...
...current situation is becoming increasingly oligarchic, with only a small minority of citizens interested in the running of the country. In this year of the 200th anniversary of the Constitution, and of Robert H. Bork--and consequently of constant talk of the rights of citizenship--sight should not be lost of the responsibilities...
...political theater, with enough ( ideological conflicts, impassioned players and historic resonance to make it a worthy sequel to this summer's Iran-contra civics lesson. But the hearings into the nomination of Robert Bork as the nation's 104th Supreme Court Justice offer something more. At issue on the 200th birthday of the Constitution will be the most fundamental questions at the heart of that document and in the soul of the nation it constituted: What inalienable rights -- ranging from free speech to equal justice to personal privacy -- are guaranteed to citizens by the highest law of the land? Because...
During the course of the book, due to be released today--the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution--Crenshaw begins to doubt that Blacks can use the law to help gain social, economic, and political equality...
...whose sense of patriotism is informed by a sincere belief in the rule of law and the workings of democracy. The relentless Iran-contra testimony has been a painful as well as prolonged process, but it has also offered up a sound civics lesson to a nation celebrating the 200th anniversary of its Constitution: that + America is a nation of laws, of checks and balances, and of policies that must be accountable to elected officials and ultimately the people...