Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earning seven nominations each were Dangerous Liaisons, a drama hinging on the bed-hopping seductions of the wealthy in prerevolutionary France, and Mississippi Burning, the controversial depiction of the FBI's investigation of the slaying of three civil rights workers...
...American press has been negligent and biased in its sporadic coverage of civil strife in Northern Ireland, panelists at an Institute of Politics forum at the Kennedy School said last night...
...effort to further broaden access to legal advice, the government also proposed allowing lawyers to accept civil cases on a no-win, no-fee contingency basis, taking their payment out of their client's award. To prevent an explosion of litigation, the government wants to strictly limit the maximum lawyers can collect on contingency...
Still, most Paraguayans did not clamor for Stroessner's fall. In the 50 years preceding his ascent to power, the country endured civil wars, coups and more than 30 shaky presidencies. If curtailment of fundamental freedoms was the price for political and economic stability, most citizens were willing to buy into the Faustian bargain. During most of Stroessner's rule, Paraguay maintained a rate of economic growth unusual for Latin America...
Since the Civil Rights movement, financial aid has been granted based on need. Congress held the belief that no one should have limited access to higher education because of class. Under the Nunn plan, financial aid would be singularly granted to those who perform government-approved activities...