Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Appeal Dept: I used to have little respect for the makers of Johnny Walker scotch, a fair-to-good booze that has elevated itself to premium status (and price) through clever advertising campaigns...
...international psychiatric establishment, the Soviets have spared little effort to show their good faith. In the past two years, the government has released more than 100 dissidents from hospitals and carried out several legal and procedural reforms. The new regulations provide that mental patients or their relatives can appeal an involuntary hospitalization in court. Moreover, control of special psychiatric hospitals for the criminally insane has been shifted from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which oversees the police, to the Ministry of Health. And in a break with the Soviets' monolithic tradition, a few articles discussing psychoanalysis have started to appear...
...most impressive acting troupe, the Sovremennik (Contemporary) Theater. Says Konstantin Raikin, artistic director of the Satirikon Theater, where the Russian-language debut of Jean Genet's psychosexual drama The Maids is Moscow's hottest show and among the least political: "These days, a measure of a play's appeal is to be able to say that it's not only about perestroika...
...apparent strain between Gorbachev and Castro is widely publicized in the United States as Gorbachev's appeal among even conservative U.S. policymakers broadens. The United States has gloatingly lauded the Soviet Union's recent elections, in which locally chosen politicians defeated many party officials, Many here see the Soviet "restructuring" as a challenge to open the Cuban dictatorship...
According to current practice, the DET does notprovide translators to claimants, leaving manyimmigrants with no way to appeal an unfavorabledecision on unemployment benefits, advocates ofthe proposed legislation said yesterday...