Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that he appears to have exhausted the University's internal mechanisms for resolving Faculty disputes, Berkowitz said he finds himself "forced to contemplate seriously" taking outside legal action against the University...
...President exercised a little-used constitutional provision allowing him to make immediate appointments while the Senate is in recess (Senators are now enjoying a 10-day Memorial Day break). His action puts Hormel in the job until the end of the next Senate session, which conveniently coincides with the end of the Clinton presidency. With Republicans currently in disarray over how to enact their budget- and tax-cutting agenda, reports TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, the President decided this could be an easy political pickup for him at little political cost -- and with solid appeal to some of his more...
...trial has had the unintended consequence of focusing international attention on Turkey's human rights record and its treatment of the Kurds," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "NATO's Kosovo campaign also increases pressure on Turkey to conform to the standards of an alliance that is taking military action in defense of human rights...
Wisdom was guided by a vision of color-neutral society, but he knew that in order to remedy centuries of discrimination, the court couldn't be color-blind. As the father of affirmative action, he understood that remedying segregation required "the organized undoing" of its effects...
...JUST BARBIE A study published in last week's International Journal of Eating Disorders found that popular male action figures like G.I. Joe have been popping the plastic steroids a little too zealously. The G.I. Joe of the 1960s had biceps equivalent to those of an average man, about 12 in. But the 1997 iteration, G.I. Joe Extreme, had biceps measuring 26 in. Poor Mark McGwire. His are a piddling...