Word: departmentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since at least 1986, female corrections officers in New York City have been told that if they become pregnant, they must have abortions or resign. Many of the women have had abortions. One who didn't was fired for insubordination. The officers, who are suing the Department of Corrections, claim...
One ecodisaster in a lifetime is enough for Dennis Kelso, Alaska's commissioner of the department of environmental conservation. Unless tankers that use the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline submit individual spill contingency plans by Nov. 13, Kelso says he will deny them access to the port of Valdez, effectively...
The well-drilled 585-man fire department proved all but useless: broken mains left the city without water. Scattered blazes soon converged into fire storms that gobbled up huge swaths of the city. The inferno spread despite desperate attempts to create firebreaks by dynamiting whole blocks of homes and businesses...
Even in the unpredictable Soviet Union, television viewers must be astonished by a new program on one of the two state-run channels. Last week, in a Sunday time slot following the evening news, Metropolitan Pitirim, head of the publishing department of the Russian Orthodox Church, appeared on the screen...
Sequestration is the last resort of national politicians unwilling to cut government spending in much the same way that patriotism is called the last refuge of scoundrels. The obscure word, which looks like a refugee from a crossword puzzle, means seizure, and that is what happened last week. President Bush...