Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, the night's attendees all act like family members, calling each other by names and hugging hello. A half-hour break in the evening of dances features announcements for storytelling groups in dancer's homes, backrubs accompanied by freestyle poetry, and a birthday cake in honor of any Scorpio's in the audience...
...refusal to pay for elective abortions also falls within the immediate penumbra of the free-speech right not to be forced to, as Supreme Court justices proclaimed, "confess by word or act" any particular view of "politics, nationalism, religion or other matter of opinion." The Supreme Court has protected under this aspect of free speech a Jehovah's Witness's refusal to salute the American flag and a refusal to carry a license plate with a libertarian state motto...
Revenge would be sweet, but unless Harvard cleans up its act, it looks to be a distant possibility...
...steady drop in cost and rise of swifter, sleeker products are pushing another trend as well: the expanding corps of small businesses that can act bigger than their size by going online. With quick 56K modems and low-cost servers, lots of businesses see the Web as an opportunity that has arrived...
...national television. What do the authorities do next? Answer: Very little. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who has admitted helping over 130 terminally ill patients end their lives, threw down the gauntlet to prosecutors Sunday after CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape in which Kevorkian commits the act himself. "Either they go," he said, "or I go." Kevorkian has been tried and acquitted three times on assisted suicide charges; his lawyer says he now wants to force a "high noon" confrontation with the police. If convicted, the self-styled Dr. Death says he will starve himself to death...