Word: actes
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...Palestinian national rights. By condemning Israeli suppression of the intifada, we are not ignoring a "larger context" of justified occupation, but responding indirectly to the new context: protesting Israeli political intractability by drawing attention to the horrific results it produces daily. We must invoke intifada statistics as an act of political protest...
Baldwin and other supporters say that the university, which was founded under the Land Grant Act of 1862, may face a legal battle if it bans ROTC. The Land Grant Act provided start-up money for state schools but stipulated that the schools offer military instruction...
Legislation on both parental leave and child care has been inching through Congress. Hopes for passing some version of the Act for Better Child Care (ABC) before year's end were dashed two weeks ago by political wrangling over how to finance it. A family-leave bill is also stalled. Policymakers in some states are not waiting for Washington to act. Seven states, including Minnesota, Oregon and Rhode Island, have already adopted comprehensive parental-leave laws; ten others have passed maternity-leave bills...
...million to businesses in which Henkel was part owner) by lobbying former White House chief of staff Donald Regan. Henkel's stint on the board lasted only five months. Although he was cleared of any wrongdoing, he resigned after the Justice Department and the FHLBB investigated his first official act: a motion that would have specifically benefited Keating by exempting Lincoln from direct-investment limits...
...principal villain in this piece is the actress's father, an itinerant Spanish dancer named Eduardo Cansino. He recruited his daughter, then barely in her teens, to be his partner in his nightclub act. Leaming contends that he also sexually abused her. The evidence here is spotty, based solely on Welles' word that Hayworth once admitted as much to him. But as a working hypothesis, the trauma of incest may explain a lifetime of otherwise inexplicable, self- destructive blunders...