Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of "meal patterns," bureaucratese for guidelines that determine the permissible size and nutritional quality of lunches. In three weeks, the new USDA meal proposals were rushed through the agency, hastily given the green light by Stockman's Office of Management and Budget, and made public on the eve of the long Labor Day weekend. In essence, the new regulations would have saved local school authorities $300 million by instituting several key changes. Among them: offering only three main types of lunches (preschool, elementary and secondary) instead of five; reducing the minimum allowable size of a meal; lowering...
...grumbling had started on the eve of the conclave, when Walesa and three other members of the union's eleven-man presidium accepted a compromise plan for worker self-management without consulting the rank-and-file. The new plan, which would give workers a limited voice in choosing their own plant managers, fell short of initial sweeping demands for worker autonomy. Many of the delegates returned to Gdansk spoiling for a fight with their own leaders...
...eve of Independence Day, which falls on Sept. 15, the President of Costa Rica traditionally lights a "Liberty Torch" in the old capital city of Cartago and the next day addresses school children in the present capital of San José. This year things did not work out too well. At Cartago, President Rodrigo Carazo Odio, 54, was shouted down when he tried to speak, and later discovered that the air had been let out of the tires of his car. At San José he did not even bother with the customary oration. He quickly paraphrased the first verse...
...sort of activism that has prompted some federal judges, like Frank Johnson of Alabama, to take over the administration of prisons or busing programs as a way of guaranteeing constitutional rights. For this reason Sandra Day O'Connor doubtless pleased the New Right when, on the eve of her confirmation as the first woman on the Supreme Court, she declared that "the proper role of the judiciary is one of interpreting and applying the law, not making it." The legal theory underlying the New Right campaign is primitive in its simplicity: if federal courts interpret...
Some of the earliest controversy over the Ebla findings was sparked when famous names in the Bible-Adam, Eve, Jonah and David among them-turned up on the Ebla tablets. This did not mean the same persons were being written about, but indicated that Ebla and the Bible could have come from similar cultural milieus...