Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In one panel, Trudeau's narrator introduces Timmy, a tiny dot on the television screen. "While his main preoccupation at this point is cell division," the narrator says of the embryo, "in most respects he's as human as you and I." When he later calls abortions "nothing less than...
Only the day before Lewis said he would step down, Navy Secretary John F. Lehman levied a fine and penalties against General Dynamics for "a pervasive corporate attitude . . . inappropriate to the public trust." The fine was $676,283.30, ten times the amount of gratuities that the company gave Admiral Hyman...
How did the troika do it? The experts, including one of the world's pre- eminent power arbiters, Henry Kissinger, predicted that such a division of authority around the President might not work. It did, and now many of the same people are predicting that power will be too centralized...
Although better known for its TV sets and toasters, GE is the sixth-largest U.S. defense contractor, receiving 20% of its revenues from military work. In 1980 the company's space-systems division in Philadelphia was suffering cost overruns on a $47 million project to refurbish Minuteman missiles. Because GE...
Don't feel too cheated, though Harvard, like most northeastern schools, plays one of the easiest Division I schedules in the country. Most of the teams that made it to the regionals are clearly better than the Crimson. Only Western Carolina (35-33) and Lamar (32-22) have winning percentages...