Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The search of the crash site, roughly the length of three football fields, "will be an inch-by-inch thing," Halterman said from the NTSB's makeshift command center in the Sioux City Convention Center.
Unfortunately, the Japanese ivory traders delayed too long. Unrelenting poaching has cut Africa's wild elephant population by more than half in the past decade, to an estimated 625,000. In October the 102 nations that subscribe to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species are expected to declare...
The case involved Gregory ("Joey") Johnson, 32, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, who torched an American flag outside the 1984 Republican Convention in Dallas. "America, the red, white and blue, we spit on you," chanted the crowd. Until now, despite the frequency with which the flag had...
But the doors are closing. Everywhere barriers are going up to keep refugees out, largely by challenging whether they are legitimate refugees. The 1951 U.N. Geneva Convention on Refugees defines a refugee as any uprooted person who has "a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality...
The congressional letters and the Corcoran withdrawal incited the ire of arts partisans who contend that withholding funds or threatening to do so amounts to Government censorship. Political whim, their argument goes, should not be the judge of art. What shocks one generation -- a Madonna set in a shabby tenement...