Word: existance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...term-bill revenue has sparked a heated debate over how the money should be used. A number of options have been put on the table; the leading possibilities include spending it on this year's Springfest and giving it to the myriad campus student groups that exist on a meager budget. The various options each has relative strengths and weaknesses. And $40,000, nearly half the council's annual budget, is by no means a small amount of money. How, then, should the council choose...
...pressure on the president to rescind employment non-discrimination for twig-picking federal workers. Trent Lott did not compare twig-picking to kleptomania. There were no "ex-twig-pickers" advertisements in The New York Times or The Washington Post. In fact, to my knowledge, no "ex-twig" ministries exist in America...
What disappoints me most is that this article was written by two Harvard women. If some of the most educated, intelligent women in our country condone these stereotypes, is it any wonder that they continue to exist and influence society? If the authors are representative of those who are looked to as leaders in the next century, I am truly frightened for the future of women in our nation...
...work is still performed back in the U.S. The companies merely hire a local firm to maintain their records, open a bank account, conduct that annual board meeting and provide an offshore postal address. "FSCs are transparent companies," says a longtime agent on St. Thomas. "They don't really exist." To comply with the law, companies send their already processed sales invoices, brochures and other export literature in boxes to St. Thomas for mailing. Perhaps 50 islanders, mostly low-salaried clerical help, work in the FSC field...
VADIM FILIMONOV, a 67-year-old former law professor, is the head of the commission of the Duma that is seeing whether grounds exist to launch an impeachment process against BORIS YELTSIN. Yeltsin's alleged misdeeds are far graver than sexual misconduct: he stands accused of causing the collapse of the U.S.S.R., organizing the assault on the parliament in October 1993 and instigating the war in Chechnya, among other offenses. So far, none of the star witnesses--Yeltsin and other Kremlin bosses--have shown up to testify, something Filimonov blames on his lack of subpoena power. Still, the committee...