Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once endorsed by the National Assembly, Aquino is likely to call a constitutional convention to rewrite the present document, eliminating some of its more authoritarian provisions. The plan is broadly supported by her advisers, even Enrile. "We should revise the constitution and remove its imperfections," he told TIME. "It was tailored to serve a regime." One of the first provisions to go will be Amendment 6, which granted Marcos broad decree-making powers. Aquino pledged during the campaign to repeal the amendment or, alternatively, to use it one last time to wipe out all of Marcos' repressive measures...
...really tired of being a passive student. It's exciting to go into the high schools and see people doing broad thinking for the first time," says Janet S. Bixby '86, who lives off campus...
...important for a design school to be in the context of a broad intellectual environment. That makes everything more exciting," he said...
...course, mostly thought the players were crazy--until they caught on big. Hill and Weingrad are deft at dealing with all the infighting, as well as describing what the creative action was like inside MiG alley. They also benefit from a cast of characters that comes predrawn in broad outlines, like so many figures in a crazy coloring book. But the shading added by the authors is careful and, in the case of players elbowed out of the spotlight, like Laraine Newman and Garrett Morris, compassionate. Some of S.N.L.'s creators turn out to be as vivid as the performers...
...architect and implementer of the 1972 martial law crackdown. Although Enrile had never openly criticized the President until now, despite a humiliating loss of power to General Ver, which Marcos ) sanctioned, as long as two years ago he had begun privately to confide his concerns about Ver's broad powers. If Marcos again declared martial law, he said, he would feel compelled to quit his post...