Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...height of her distress, Gasior found a sympathetic ear in Congress. Struck by her story, Rose, who had been tracking BNL, asked her to testify before his subcommittee. "Marianne is a very brave lady," Rose says, "who had far too large a conscience to work in corporate America and too much conscience, for sure, to work for Kennametal...
...them, when a "magic ticket" propels him through the screen and into the latest action epic of his film hero, Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger). "We're perfect buddy-movie material," the boy tells his reluctant new partner. "I'll teach you to be voluble. You'll teach me to be brave." Having seen part of the picture, Danny knows that Jack is in peril from a bull's-eye assassin (Charles Dance). There's a lot that Jack, poor simple muscle-bound dear, doesn't know -- including that he's a fictional character. When he chases the assassin out of movieland...
...That brave repudiation of a regime bent on perpetuating white hegemony in South Africa earned Mandela a lifetime's incarceration, while his jailers pressed on with their megalomaniac construct called grand apartheid. At the same time, his stance just as surely launched South Africa on the road to democracy. Last week the country took an irreversible step forward when black and white political leaders declared that every citizen will be able to vote to choose the government. With that historic agreement, Mandela and South Africa's 28 million blacks will be able to savor the success of their freedom struggle...
MEDICINE: Brave New Babies...
...mysterious assaults, his live-TV walkout) preceded the indignities imposed by the network bosses (his closest CBS colleagues purged, his story ideas slighted). But the scenario is still Chayefskian, and now there's a real-life Network II: in a goose-the-ratings gambit, the bosses oblige the battered, brave protagonist (Rather) to accept a hustling, not exactly cerebral woman (Connie Chung) as his co-anchor...