Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bought into a spree of bad luck. The company, which markets consumer goods on its phone-in TV shows, has made a series of ill-advised acquisitions; its stock price has slipped from a 1987 high of $47 a share to less than $4; and it faces a class-action stockholder lawsuit. Last week came more bad news. A jury in Pinellas County ordered HSN to pay GTE $100 million in libel damages. That is the largest libel award in history...
...accords called for the disarming of the Contras, whether or not the rebels agree to it. But Arias and President Jose Azcona of Honduras say the disbanding will have to be voluntary, and Azcona refuses to use military force against the rebels and will not tolerate Nicaraguan military action along the Honduran border...
There is a precedent for such an action. All DC-10s were grounded for a month in 1979 after an American Airlines plane lost a wing engine during take-off. That accident took the lives of 258 people...
...designed to create specific proposals which can be implemented at the participants' schools in September. Students meet in groups of eight and are required to produce case studies from their own experiences. They then integrate the strategies they have experimented with at the Institute in order to create an "Action Plan," which is taken back, possibly to be implemented in that participant's school district...
...insistence that people should just ignore these factors reeks of the kind of placating "polite feminism" or gradual action that does more damage to rights groups by discouraging any kind of real change. It is only a modified version of the "don't make waves" theory that the privileged class feeds the rest to ensure they remain...