Word: accords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mallard says that experiences of the past12 years have led him largely to give up theexpectation that the State Department will take upKeene and Maes' case of its own accord. Theexecutive-turned-human rights activist says hishopes now rest with the efforts underway inCongress and in the Supreme Court...
After the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988, President-elect Bush was faced, according to a State Department study, with deciding whether "to treat Iraq as a distasteful dictatorship to be shunned where possible, or to recognize Iraq's present and potential power in the region and accord it relatively high priority . . . ((with)) steady relations concentrating on trade." Bush eventually, and not without justification, chose the latter course. On Oct. 2, 1989, he signed National Security Directive 26, setting out the ways in which closer ties with Iraq were to be achieved, including "nonlethal forms of military assistance...
...must earnestly seek moral and spiritual revival so that mankind will live + in peace in accord with God's law. The world's ethical standards must keep pace with its technological advances. We should also try to establish a Society of Democratic Nations to guarantee the rule of law and order, free trade, proper stewardship of the environment and the sanctity of human rights...
...courses in from outer space, human activities will govern the destiny of earth's ecosystems. It may soon be within human power to produce the republics of grass and insects that writer Jonathan Schell believed would be the barren legacy of nuclear war. If humanity fails to seek an accord with nature, population control may be imposed involuntarily by the environment itself. Is there room for optimism? Yes, but only if one can imagine the people of 2050 looking back at the mad spasm of consumption and thoughtless waste in the 20th century as an aberration in human history...
...examples above--the French Table, the Hasty Pudding Club--most of us recognize the group culture's uniqueness and right to exist. But when it comes to all-male clubs, in Boston or at Harvard, there arises a resistance to accord them the same rights...