Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest, near Smolensk. The Soviets have long maintained that those murders were carried out by invading Nazi forces, but most Polish and many other historians believe they were ordered by Moscow. A joint Soviet-Polish historical commission was formed last year and given access to previously closed Soviet archives dealing with the matter. Many Poles had hoped that Gorbachev would cut through that tedious process and apply his well-known policy of glasnost (openness) to the festering Katyn controversy. But he declined to mention it directly, saying merely, "Truth and justice can be late...
Even in those days, when Atlanta's stature was based on the access it afforded to places like Valdosta and Meridian and Demopolis, it had what you might call international aspirations. When I was in the company of civic boosters, they would begin by telling me about how many FORTUNE 500 companies were represented in the city and how much higher in altitude and more westerly in longitude it was than anyone might have imagined -- anyone, they must have meant, who had never met an Atlanta booster. Then, if there was a lull in the conversation, they would sometimes...
Some scientists, Soviet and American alike, have still not abandoned hope of finding life or its remnants deeper in the Martian soil. There life forms might have access to water and be protected from the fierce solar ultraviolet radiation that rains down on the surface, virtually unobstructed by the Martian atmosphere. Sedimentary rocks in the ancient riverbeds would be an ideal place to hunt for fossils of organisms that may have lived when Mars was more benign, with a thicker atmosphere, warmer climate and running water on its surface...
...believe that equal access to government services, employment, housing, business enterprise and education should be assured in this multicultural society to every citizen regardless of race, sex, national origin, religion, age, handicapping condition or sexual orientation...
...believe that all Americans should enjoy access to affordable, comprehensive health care . . . from well-baby care . . . to Medicare . . . ((and)) quality affordable long-term home and health care for senior citizens . . . must be a top priority...