Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the scrutiny of the Court's decision has rested on the parts dealing with abortions in public hospitals and with the trimester system. But the Court may have made more of a long-term impact not by what it addressed, but by what it chose not to address in the ruling...
...politicians had their own Academy Awards, the statuette for cliff-hanger scenarios would certainly go to Poland. Last week the Sejm, the governing lower house of Parliament, tackled the task of electing a Prime Minister to head the new government. President Wojciech Jaruzelski chose Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak for the post. But Kiszczak ran into such fierce resistance from both the Solidarity opposition and some legislators allied with the Communists that frantic politicking continued right down to the wire. Communist leaders pressured their rebellious allies within the United Peasant Alliance, offering important positions and threatening to retract privileges. The tactics...
...relatively moderate because he reportedly dropped a demand for the total - withdrawal of Israeli troops before elections take place. Others read the terms, such as the long-standing demand for an independent Palestinian state, as confirmation of Arafat's insufficient flexibility. Arafat, true to his own ambiguous style, conveniently chose to highlight his more rigid points to the Arab world...
...country's minuscule but politically active Protestant minority. "Originally, I wanted to be a doctor too," says Doi. "My parents were in favor of the idea that girls should study and try to be independent like men." Eventually, after studying English at a women's college, Doi chose instead to take law at Doshisha University, where she saw a movie about the young Abraham Lincoln. "I will have to be like Lincoln," she recalls thinking to herself. "A supporter of the weak...
...soon noticed that in all the other mixed-sex canoes, the male was in the back (doing the rowing and steering), and the female was in the front, lightly paddling when she chose. My tiny masculine ego crawled from its shell...