Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal jobs are already reserved for members of tribes and untouchables, and high-caste students fear they will be squeezed out of the job market. As protests spread, Singh said in a speech that he would not "dilute" his plan. Meanwhile, 24 towns and cities were placed under curfew...
...Curfew again: Nablus returns to its motionless antiworld, its un-Palestine...
...after five days, the army lifts the curfew...
...fruits and vegetables, the figs and grape leaves and fragrant mint, the baklava with its hovering bees, the butchered goats and lambs and live chicks in cardboard boxes, rectangles of softly agitating yellow fluff. The narrow alleys of the Casbah fill with the smells and bustle of marketing after curfew. Palestinian life in the steep-sided hills of the occupied West Bank makes one of its dreamlike passages back to the state of mind in which, for a moment, it feels normal...
...passed by a vote of six to two, marks the first time Cambridge has sanctioned the use of electronic amplifiers by street musicians. It also establishes performance sound levels, an 11 o'clock curfew and a $25 fine for each infraction...