Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however horrific, produced very changed men and women who served out of dedication to protecting the same American rights and values that others used to condemn the fighting. There are important initiatives that the government must continue in order to address the economic, social, and physical suffering the vets have encountered as a result of their service, but just as important is that the veterans and their families be able to come out of the closet and claim the pride they deserve for their efforts and the efforts of their 57,939 colleagues who never returned...
...last time so many people converged on Washington, all with Viet Nam on their minds, was to condemn the war and the U.S. Government. Then, as now, many of the visitors wore blue jeans, beards and long hair. Thirteen years ago this month at the antiwar March Against Death, the demonstrators invented a perfect piece of moral theater by reciting, one at a time, the names of 40,000 Americans who had been killed up to then. Last Wednesday morning, in a chapel at Washington's National Cathedral, the bleak recitation began again, and it seemed all the more...
...defense, officials argue that the international organization is "caught in a political vortex," needing incontrovertible evidence before being able to condemn a superpower. Meanwhile, for the victims of the deadly yellow showers, the raindrops keep falling...
During last spring's Falkland Islands war, the Security Council condemned Argentina's invasion of Britain's remote South Atlantic dependencies, but Secretary-General Pérez de Cuellar failed in his efforts to avert bloodshed. Nor did the General Assembly dare to condemn the Soviet Union by name when it called for an end to Moscow's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan...
...more women on the Harvard force, she does not advocate a set percentage. "I don't think you want to have women because somebody decides you need better representation," she says. "If you get some kind of affirmative action pushing qualified and unqualified people in a group, then people condemn the whole group...