Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forget watching other athletes compete, you say. You want to be part of the action...
Kemp announced his action as congressional aides said several prominent figures in the investigation will be called to testify again, including former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce...
...session which ended with the announcement of theWebster decision will go down in history as a marker of our times. The Court's decisions subtly chipped away at many of the gains made in the civil rights era--most obviously in its decisions to narrow the interpretation of affirmative action and, with its ruling in Webster, pave the way for state regulation of reproduction...
...affirmative action rulings provoked little more than quiet outrage from some of the country's liberal legislators and editorial pages. The fight has been left in the hands of the pro-choice forces...
...Washington too was caught up in the paroxysms of patriotism. The Senate voted 97-to-3 for a resolution by majority leader George Mitchell and minority leader Bob Dole that expressed "profound disappointment" in the decision. "I will join the efforts of other members of Congress in rectifying this action, including supporting a constitutional amendment, if necessary," Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn declared...