Word: breach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credit, Bramson said the security breach alone would have invalidated the results of last week's vote in any case, even if no vote fraud were reported...
...political self- interest." The strategy failed to prevent an indictment. By a largely partisan vote of 166 to 121, the legislators ordered Papandreou, 70, to stand trial later this year before a special court on three felony charges -- taking bribes, accepting the proceeds of a crime, and breach of faith...
...others in Allston-Brighton, backed by some Boston city officials, have lambasted Harvard for the building purchase, charging that it constituted a major breach of trust on the part of the University...
...Incarceration, Gesell explained, would only harden the "misconceptions" that had led North into wrongdoing. In Gesell's sight, North was a "low-ranking subordinate" ordered into illegal activity by "cynical superiors" in the White House's "elite isolation." Said Gesell: "You're not the fall guy for this tragic breach of public trust...
Meanwhile, many believers in a woman's right to control her own body have become absolutists as well, hooked on the Constitution. They fear that any breach in the constitutional barrier -- that is, any role for the democratic process in settling the abortion issue -- will condemn women to mass death by coat hanger. In April hundreds of thousands marched on Washington in a quixotic attempt to influence the very branch of Government whose independence from public pressure they count on to protect them from the mob on the other side...