Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executed, and that, though Bishop's case is unusual, his demise further hurts their cause. ''Each execution makes it easier to kill the next time,'' says former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who tried several times to dissuade Bishop from his course of action. But the killer argued that his execution might be so repulsive that it would weaken support for the death penalty...
...Sung has played one off against the other, to keep from being dominated by either while drawing maximum support from both. If it looked as though U.S. forces were about to drive him back to the Yalu River, the Soviets might be tempted to venture a salvage action-which could provoke Chinese counterintervention...
...committee had prevented former Premier Yitzhak Rabin from including in his memoirs a first-person account of the expulsion of 50,000 Palestinian civilians from their homes near Tel Aviv during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Some of Rabin's former colleagues disputed his account; the censors' action was presumably based on the argument that any discussion of the subject by former officials tends to damage Israel's reputation overseas and to bolster Arab claims to territory that has long since become part of Israel...
Fighting a rearguard action against the money funds, many bankers trumpet that their deposits are guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and that money market funds are riskier. There is a slight risk, but since the funds are put largely into top bank and corporate securities, a number of banks and cor porations would have to go broke before the typical money market investor would suffer much loss. He would not even lose, but his yields would go down, if interest rates declined. If they dropped far enough, he might have been wiser to invest in a long-term...
...troupe's send-up of the Gospels that is widely condemned as blasphemous by Christians and Jews alike. But almost simultaneously, it is releasing another movie that will please the pious. This film, titled simply Jesus, is calculated to appeal to the most ardent biblical purists: all the action and virtually all the words spoken by the actors and off-screen Narrator Alexander Scourby are taken straight from the Gospel of Luke...