Word: beacons
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...true that free speech may be used in a manner which may ultimately lead to harm to society. But the speech and harm are distinct. American democracy's shining beacon has been the tolerance of views that many consider abhorrent and dangerous. Communists may freely run for office. Nazis may march through a city with a large Jewish population. The Klan may advocate the repeal of civil rights statutes. Anything else is thought control. At the heart of the First Amendment is the belief that, except in the rare circumstances when speech will demonstrably cause immediate physical harm...
...victories, fresh tactics and a vibrant combativeness. Two weeks ago, federal arbitrators awarded pay hikes averaging 17% over six years to 20,000 flight attendants who struck American Airlines in 1993 and defied the company by remaining out while it hired replacement workers. "What happened was really a beacon for labor," says Denise Hedges, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. "It was the strike, or rather the very serious way we pursued it, that forced management back to the table...
...Paris. The year is 1904. The chief protagonists are the young Albert Einstein (played by Mark Nelson) and the young Pablo Picasso (Tim Hopper), both of whom stand on the threshold of international fame. The source of the confusion--the reason why Elvis (Gabriel Macht) emerges as a beacon of light--isn't the heady intellectuality of this conjunction of trailblazers but an uncertainty of styles; the play doesn't seem quite sure what style it should...
...reporting on Oklahoma City and its aftermath. A Notre Dame graduate, he went on to earn a law degree at UCLA. But the lure of journalism, which he had felt as a teenager, reasserted itself, and he took a job 10 years ago at the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal as a staff writer. Stints at Business Week and Bloomberg's Business News followed before he joined Time in 1992 as a correspondent in the Los Angeles bureau...
...they approached the area where O'Grady's signal beacon had been traced. The pilots saw bright yellow smoke coming from trees near a rocky pasture; O'Grady had set off a flare. The first Super Stallion, commanded by Major William Tarbutton, touched down, trying to avoid crude pine fence posts with barbed wire strung between them. Some 20 Marines scrambled out to set up a security perimeter...