Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aside from Duarte winning at the polls and the bulk of the army keeping its cool, no short order in itself, progress in El Salvador rides on a change in U.S. attitudes. Force, it should be finally realized, is unlikely to solve problems anywhere south of the border. Bringing the moderates in the government and guerrillas together for dialogue aimed at ending the civil war and constructing as broadly based a government as possible in the splintered country should be given top priority...
...representative of the population they serve. Finding past discrimination, the courts ordered a preferential hiring plan. All went more or less smoothly until Proposition 2 1/2 slashed city revenues, forcing layoffs in the departments. Under the last-in-first-out policies of the police and fire forces, the bulk of the employees who would have lost their jobs due to the cutbacks were the newly hired women and minorities--effectively negating the effects of the affirmative action plan. When the department altered its seniority plan somewhat to preserve some of the effects of the affirmative action plan, several white officers...
Punitive damages, which make up the bulk of many of the biggest awards, are intended to discourage false and harmful reporting, and thus by their nature raise difficult constitutional questions about interference with editorial freedom. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis, who is also a lecturer at Harvard Law School, argued, "The vindication of one's good name does not require colossal verdicts. Damages awarded without effective limit in libel may violate the First Amendment." The concern is more than theoretical: a libel suit against the Alton Telegraph (circ. 137,000) in Illinois forced ? the 148-year-old newspaper...
...follows this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, would not a printing press itself also serve as an illicit aid to reproducing copyrighted material without permission? Why not also ban pens, since they too can be used to copy down protected material? After all, the bulk of student plagiarism from copyrighted material goes via the pen from the text to the note card or legal pad. Imagine this same Kroft arguing in some medieval court that peasants illegally pass on the tales of the traveling minstrel and so demand that some farmer's tongue be removed...
...style; throughout their stay, the Italians were able to maintain their role as peace keepers, while the American force came to be seen as an active supporter of the government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, a Maronite Christian. With the departure of the British, the Italians and the bulk of the American contingent, the 1,250-man French unit was the only component of the Multi-National Force left hi Lebanon. French officials said again last week that they hoped to stay on until some different kind of inter-I national force replaced them...