Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fourteen hours after Bok's announcement, on April 20, two dozen students used crowbars to enter Mass. Hall through a window...
Beijing immediately declared the new legislature illegal and vowed to abolish it the moment China resumes sovereignty. Enter C.H. Tung. The territory's first homegrown leader was chosen by a 400-member selection committee that was itself picked by Beijing. The quietly effective power broker seemed uniquely qualified to bridge the gap between Hong Kong's promised autonomy and the new landlord's demand for control. For a time, Tung seemed to manage the delicate balancing act. He paid fealty to the "Chinese values" revered by his patrons even as he voiced confidence he could maintain Hong Kong's Western...
...ongoing quest for an Internet bogeyman, pornography still gets the most ink, but gambling is where the action will be. Online betting--primarily through Websites that let you wager on sports events, enter lotteries and play casino games--is still in its infancy. Between $100 million and $200 million will be gambled online this year worldwide, says Whittier Law School professor and gaming-industry expert I. Nelson Rose. That's just a tiny portion of the national habit, of course. Americans legally hazarded an astonishing half a trillion dollars in 1995, earning the gaming industry profits of $44.4 billion--more...
...race of their applicants--said the number of blacks and Hispanics enrolling for next year had fallen to levels not seen in decades. At the University of Texas, which has produced more minority lawyers than any other school in the country--and where, typically, 30 to 40 blacks enter each year--only 11 blacks were accepted and none had enrolled; the number of Hispanics dropped from more than 50 to 14. In California the schools at both Berkeley and UCLA saw black admissions drop 80%, while the number of Hispanic students fell 50% and 32%, respectively...
...both sides--from the scientifically trained M.D. who treats every runny nose with an antibiotic to the naturopathically trained chiropractor who battles against immunization, the best preventive medicine that science has given us. The quality of health care will improve as more middle-ground physicians are trained and enter practice. RONALD S. GRANT, M.D. Tucson, Ariz...