Word: displays
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...unanimously reversed the decision of a Mississippi court, which had assessed the N.A.A.C.P. more than $1.25 million in damages for supporting a 1966 boycott by blacks of discriminatory merchants in Port Gibson, Miss. Jubilant delegates burst into old freedom songs and danced in the aisles in a 30-minute display reminiscent of the civil rights rallies of the '60s. -ByJackE. White
...back up the charge that the Israelis were using lethal cluster bombs supplied by the U.S. in civilian areas, the P.L.O. last week put on display parts of one type of the weapon that it claimed had been found in Lebanon. The U.S. had provided the Israelis with two models of the bomb, both of which work on the same principle. The Mark 20 Rockeye scatters eight-inch steel darts and the Cluster Bomb Unit 58 sprays bomblets armed with a charge that explodes on impact (see diagram). Because the bombs indiscriminately blast an area several hundred feet in diameter...
Canadians marked their country's 115th birthday last week with picnics, parades and a dazzling display of fireworks over Ottawa's Parliament Hill. But the celebration hardly reflected the times; Canada faces its worst economic slump since the 1930s. Unemployment stands at a post-Depression high of 10.2%, inflation is galloping along at 11.8%, and the prime rate is stuck at a crippling 18.25%. In an effort to check the growing sense of alarm, Finance Minister Allan MacEachen unveiled a new budget, his third in less than 18 months. But as Canadians studied his belt-tightening measures...
...critics who fear that medical texts and even National Geographic might be denied constitutional protection would be misreading the decision. And the use of teen-age models in suggestive ads would probably not be affected since there is no display of actual or simulated sex. Books like Show Me!, however, which uses explicit photographs to teach children about sex, might prompt prosecutions. In any event, the court made its point unflinchingly: it is willing to risk excesses of prosecution in order to stamp out the excesses of pornographers who exploit children...
...modernization process. The government has kept inflation to around 8% a year, and there simply isn't any unemployment." Even so, it is not all that certain that the tradition-minded Saudis will want to move to Jubail in the first place. By and large, educated Saudis display a desire to remain in wealthy metropolises like Jidda, Riyadh and Dhahran, where easy money is to be found and white-collar jobs are plentiful. Yet to equip less-educated and poorer Saudis for the employment challenges of Jubail will take many years of social development that is now only...