Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after a while the numbers begin to blur, and the death tolls lose their human meaning. The blood will seem much redder if we look at the reports of actual atrocities committed by the El Salvadorean government and documented by a Congressional fact-finding mission. Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Ma.), Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), and Rep. Robert Edgar (D-Pa.), obtained hundreds of first hand accounts of "murder, torture, rape, and the burning of villages and crops" by Government Security Forces. According to the United Press International...
Some assembly members said all the Dowling Committee meetings should have been open to the public. Although coverage of early meetings was allowed, the meetings were closed when the actual drafting of the proposal began...
After the 100 students Exxon has invited to interviews have an accurate idea of the size and integrity of the company, McCreery and his team settle in for the three days of interviews. In addition to the seven actual interviewers, all of whom are field or line managers rather than personnel employees, McCreery brings additional team members, ranging from recent B-School graduates who can give students a description of the academia-employment transition, to Lilly Whalley, a Black woman who offers women and minorities her personal perspectives on integrating the corporate world...
Until recently, the only information scientists had about this nebula was from its random sightings from the earth's Southern Hemisphere. Recently, it has been resolved to consist of several individual sources of light, but R136A is the first actual star that astronomers have spotted amidst this massive cloud. But some doubts remain among scientists...
...number of actual victims has risen disastrously, but the social damage done by crime, the intangible injuries to confidence and hope and citizens' sense of justice, is incalculably higher. As Chief Justice Warren Burger says, crime has created "a reign of terror in American cities." In that sense, the victims and their sufferings receive preposterously little consideration in comparison with those who assault. Somehow the criminal must be persuaded that society despises crime -surely not the impression that the criminal justice system now gives. Tough gun laws are essential. The judicial process should be speeded up. Determinate sentencing...