Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brown student Laura Moye and fellow student Kathy Yep, who have worked with rape crisis groups and were rewriting a University pamphlet on rape, called a meeting Monday as an outlet for students' feelings. More than 100 women and six or seven men attended the meeting, which was publicized by...
The committee opposed measures calling onmilitary firms to diversify and convert theiroperations to civilian production; onmanufacturers to develop cleanup plans forhazardous waste; on Chase Manhattan Bank toexplain its Third World loans in light of theworld debt crisis; and on energy firms to cancelplans for nuclear plants.
THIS affair brings up a number of troubling and unanswered questions. First, how will Kenyon and Tseng, who now works at the University of Miami, be punished? Second, what investigative and disciplinary procedures exist to handle this and similar cases and do they rely solely on in-house review? The...
Create more community-based health clinics. The homeless crisis began when overcrowded mental hospitals started to release patients who were not considered dangerous to themselves or others. The number of mental patients in U.S. institutions dropped from a peak of 560,000 to 143,000 today, and an estimated 30...
Those same names echoed throughout Europe last week as Yugoslavia confronted its most serious crisis since Marshal Tito's death in 1980. After years of weak central leadership, Yugoslavia's loose federation of six republics and two autonomous provinces seemed about to fall prey to a new plague of nationalism...