Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they got back to work. No one slept. The Israelis agreed to a phased release of some Palestinian prisoners. The Palestinians agreed to rethink the language of their charter but couldn't see a way to amend it. Once before, Arafat had summoned the Palestine National Council, many of whose members loathe the peace process, to change the charter. Reconvening them would be an embarrassment--and a danger. Clinton suggested a way out: he would fly to Gaza to speak to the council when it met. At dawn Friday, Arafat, Netanyahu and Clinton shook on a deal...
...voters in Hawaii get to decide--once and for all, they hope--whether to confer these rewards. The occasion is a constitutional amendment on the ballot, one that, if approved, would empower the state legislature to amend the constitution to ban same-sex marriages. In the most recent public poll in the Honolulu Advertiser, in September, the amendment led 52% to 40%. Still, the side that supports gay marriage has more money in the bank, and everyone expects that the campaign will end in a close vote...
...with Laramie residents and Shepard's classmates about how they are handling the emotional impact of the killing. Meanwhile, writer-reporter John Cloud and senior correspondent David Jackson traveled to Hawaii to gauge public sentiment there toward gays on the eve of a ballot that would empower legislators to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage--the first vote of its kind in the country. "Hawaii is a relatively young state with a multicultural population, so citizens have traditionally been very tolerant," Cloud says. "But Hawaiians are going through a wrenching internal debate: Should they extend the spirit...
...that the Dow has gone south, it might be wise to roll back into a traditional tax-deferred IRA and then instantly reconvert into a tax-free Roth, potentially lightening your tax load come next April 15. But don't wait too long to roll over: the IRS could amend the rules this fall to restrict the tricky savings maneuver...
Ronald F. Thiemann, who is dean of the Faculty of Divinity and O'Brian professor of divinity, gave an invocation addressing the need to amend the problems of the world outside of Harvard...