Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Generations of American G.I.s have worn dog tags as a grim reminder that the U.S. military might someday need to identify their remains. But the Pentagon has now authorized a superior DNA-identification system, for which it will collect blood and saliva samples from all service personnel. The problem is that dog tags can be lost, switched or counterfeited, and fingerprints and dental records are not always reliable. Several casualties of Desert Storm, for example, went unidentified for weeks because of such problems. Using DNA samples taken from family members, though, Army experts were recently able to identify the remains...
...friends and female colleagues. Judge Thomas has since gone on to the black-robed dignity of the Supreme Court, leaving behind the race-charged rhetoric that saved him that hot weekend in October. Professor Hill has gone back to her law-school classroom in Oklahoma, but continues to collect bouquets from groups across the country that believe ! her story, admire her courage under fire and decry the injustice of the whole episode...
...confrontation, the analysis of the Palm Beach trial was slightly more nuanced, more sophisticated in its discussion of so charged an issue as acquaintance rape. The politics may have been vicious, but the Senate passed and the President signed a civil rights bill that will finally allow victims to collect punitive damages in harassment cases. Employers are making their rules more explicit, their reporting procedures more reliable. If men and women are temporarily more cautious and self-conscious about what they may say and do, that may not be too high a price to pay for a new understanding...
Supporters are trying to collect signatures from 2500 registered voters by tomorrow to guarantee the Republican presidential candidate's name will be included on the GOP ballot...
Women gather to collect their famies' afternoon meals at the olla comun (literally translated "common pot") in the shantytown Villa Cobre. The ollas communes were among the grassroots organizations to emerge in the wake of the 1980 economic crisis. In an olla comun, shantytown women gather to cook a mid-day meal using their own and outside resources. Today over 200 ollas comunes continue to provide a daily meal for 20,000 shantytown dwellers...