Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today the "coalition of conscience" called for at the original march has taken shape. In Boston, a broad coalition of religious and political groups are organizing for the August 27 demonstration. The Massachusetts Council of Churches, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Organization of Women and the Central American Solidarity Association are among the groups actively organizing to send buses of marchers to Washington next weekend. And this time around, many labor groups have given to the march their support so conspicuously absent in 1963. AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland is personally boosting the event...
...office phone number so that listeners could call up to complain. After reading about the lab in his morning newspaper, Weinberger, who owns a male collie named Kilty, issued a terse one-line statement banning all Department of Defense dog shootings. Next a presumably weary Weinberger ordered a broad review of the Pentagon's use of animals in medical research and directed that no animals could be used for wound research until the study was completed...
...river is marked by a snaking blue line, somehow suggesting a broad rush of water. In reality, the Awali River of southern Lebanon is little more than a stream, no more than a dozen feet wide along much of its meandering course from Mount Barouk to the Mediterranean Sea. What makes the river significant, however, is not its size but the fact that its banks will mark a new military line once the Israeli army completes its partial withdrawal this fall. As such, the Awali has become the latest symbol of the fragmentation of Lebanon...
...much time and effort Western journalists spend trying to understand specific aspects of Japan, they are rarely confident that the subject has been fully grasped. TIME'S editors were convinced that readers shared their own interest in Japan, and their own desire to view the nation in broad perspective...
Harvard recently offered tenure to four outside sociologist--an unusually broad effort to build up its undersized department, which has had difficulty filling senior positions, officials said yesterday...