Word: edict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rolls in an effort to close a projected $1 billion budget gap. But Engler's "solution" has produced more chaos than cure. Michigan's unemployment rate is greater than 9%, and even highly qualified workers are finding it hard to get a job. In the wake of Engler's edict, thousands of welfare recipients have lost their apartments; seven people who were disqualified from receiving welfare have died from exposure this winter...
...single squeeze of the trigger for every round discharged. In 1989, two months after a deranged man with a semiautomatic murdered five children at a Stockton, Calif., elementary school, President Bush was persuaded to place a ban on the importation of all such foreign-made weapons. But the edict was virtually meaningless, since the vast majority of "semis" purchased in the U.S. are manufactured at home...
...youth rebellion began on June 16, 1976, when the schoolchildren of Soweto, seething over the inferior instruction known as Bantu education, rose up in protest against the state's edict that their lessons must be learned in Afrikaans, the language of the ruling whites. The initial battles left more than 400 dead, but the uprising was never completely quelled. In 1984 the comrades of the still simmering townships rebelled again, setting off a series of violent protests that killed more than 2,000 over the next two years and prompted the government to impose a state of emergency. The turmoil...
...Union during the Civil War. Without consulting Congress, and over the objections of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the president in 1861 suspended the right of habeas corpus in parts of the country. Law enforcement officials jailed without due process those suspected of having Confederate sympathies. Lincoln expanded his edict in 1862, and then, with congressional authorization, applied it to the entire Union the following year. By the war's end, the government had imprisoned 13,000 Americans under the president's decree...
...express our regret," declared the editorial in last week's Wall Street Journal worldwide, "that we are suspending our remaining circulation in the Republic of Singapore." Daily copies of its Asian edition sold in the bustling Southeast Asian city-state, the piece noted, had already < been cut by official edict from 5,000 to just 400. A new Singapore press law requiring foreign publications to be licensed annually and to post a deposit against legal judgments makes clear that "what the government of Singapore wants is for the foreign press to practice self-censorship," the editorial continued. "We cannot accept...