Word: closedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The students of 1966 were the Red Guards, and for nearly a decade their movement convulsed the country in chaos, violence and dictatorial excess. Millions of Chinese, including nearly everyone who enjoyed a privileged status, were sent to "re-education camps" in the countryside, where they underwent humiliating rituals of...
Gibbs, who declined to be interviewed for this report, proclaimed in a nationally televised news show before he left the IRS that he welcomed "a full, fair and complete airing." Since his departure, however, Acting Commissioner Michael Murphy, a career IRS bureaucrat, has been actively lobbying Congressmen to prevent any...
At a time when money is desperately needed for crumbling roads and declining schools, the fastest-growing sector of state spending is prison construction. Legislatures across the country are considering outlays of $10 billion over the next six years. In 1983 Texas spent $288 million on prison construction and operation...
And while I was good friends with men's basketball Coach Pete Roby, he never revealed any deep secrets to me about his squad because we happened to have been two Blacks in positions normally closed to Blacks.
The scene, no matter how often it is played back in the mind, still shocks and horrifies. At the end of a rally of opposition forces protesting the blatant exercise of electoral larceny in Panama, a band of T-shirted men suddenly appeared carrying wooden clubs and metal pipes. With...