Word: consents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While murder is always morally suspect, especially if it's ordered up in a conference room, Saddam just might be the exception to the rule. His power flows not from the consent of his people but from firing squads and torture chambers. He has ordered the death of tens of thousands and used cyanide, nerve gas and mustard gas against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds. Trained as an assassin--while a young man he took part in a 1959 attempt on the Iraqi Prime Minister--he once ordered a hit on George Bush. He has tried to build atom bombs...
...said that in his native Taiwan, Jiang's visit had generated widespread concern that the United States and China would act on Taiwan's status without that country's consent...
...Maryland law professor, used the law, which she called "the greatest piece of social legislation ever written," to file a federal lawsuit in 1984 on behalf of a group of disabled children denied timely delivery of educational services. The lawsuit, known locally as "Vaughn G.," resulted in a 1988 consent decree in which the school system agreed to follow a strict timetable for evaluating and educating the children...
...costing a lot, especially in Baltimore and in other cities where federal courts have effectively taken control of special education. A Philadelphia attorney appointed by the court to monitor Baltimore's compliance with the consent decree billed the school district $125 an hour for her time. Her personal fees for March 1997 alone came to $20,000. The total March bill for her office, including various support services, came to just over $36,000, enough to pay the salary of a mid-level teacher for an entire year--this in a district where some principals claim they cannot buy paper...
...film falters when it attempts to justify the more disreputable behavior among the Branch Davidians. Waco contains almost too much sympathy for the Branch Davidians. When dealing with the sexual abuse of children that may have occurred at the compound, the documentary adopts a specious argument based on parental consent, then places blame on the ATF for using this abuse--an area for which the agency has no jurisdiction--as a basis for involvement. The film, like the ATF itself, shifts blame through technicalities...