Word: civil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's one of the mechanisms that a discriminator or a loser in a civil trial has in bargaining you to a better deal," Swomley says...
...Grace has recently received negative publicity concerning environmental issues. The book and movie A Civil Action told the true story of chemical contamination in Woburn, Mass., where the company was accused of contaminating wells which caused children to get leukemia...
...asked the Court to take up a case that could potentially overturn the so-called Miranda ruling, which demands that defendants be read their rights before they give statements to the police. The administration is alarmed over a potential challenge to Miranda, and wants to confront any erosion of civil liberties under its watch. "This is a pretty conservative court on the rights of the accused," notes TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "What we're looking at is an opportunity for them to get tougher on criminal procedural issues...
Give Bill Bradley credit for this much: he has put a big idea on the table. Not the $65 billion plan to provide health insurance for just about everyone; not a social agenda extending full civil rights to gays; not even the plan he unveiled last week to devote $10 billion to address the "slow-motion national disaster" of child poverty. No, the big idea was the very idea of having a big idea...
...former President Suharto was deposed, the country has lurched repeatedly from giddy euphoria to violent despair and back. But despite the ethnic violence, lynchings and looting in major cities and the carnage in seceding East Timor, this sprawling archipelago of 210 million people has not disintegrated into ungovernability or civil war. Some had predicted the world's next Yugoslavia, but after last week, Indonesia had instead completed its graduation from a military-backed dictatorship to the world's third largest democracy (after India and the U.S.). "Indonesia is born again," said military historian Salim Said. "This is a chance...