Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fed up with hazing deaths, boozy parties, vandalism and sexual harassment, schools are telling fraternities and sororities to clean up their acts -- or clear...
Greek fraternities, those longtime social standbys of college life, are under siege. At the moment, their battlements are being assaulted by critics who want them to admit women to their all-male precincts. But that is just part of their problem. Fed up with hazing deaths, boozy parties, vandalism, rape, sexual harassment and acts of racial and ethnic intolerance, many schools are cracking down on fraternities and sororities -- or simply abolishing them. "They haven't kept pace with the times," says Stan Levy, vice chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The attitudes of the Greeks...
...building which housed these poor kids, and the next thing I know I'm accused of funneling that money through the Knights of Malta, a high- placed Catholic society, to the Nicaraguan rebels to buy arms. This comes out of the Congress. You print everything that the Fed feeds you. The person they're talking about doesn't exist...
...that have carried out executions since the Supreme Court declared the death penalty constitutional in 1976. And it will do so at the very moment that the death penalty has become a hot campaign issue around the U.S. "There is almost a mob attitude in California, a frenzy being fed by politicians," frets Robert Bryan, chairman of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. "It's sure to increase public pressure throughout the country for the death penalty...
...overnight revolution in Mongolia was an astonishing victory for the country's nascent opposition, which went public with its campaign for democratization only three months ago. The forces of dissent have multiplied rapidly, fed by popular discontent over economic stagnation, communist autocracy and domination by Moscow. Recently, the government of President Jambyn Batmonh has loosened up, allowing joint ventures with Western companies, for example. But the pace of change was too sluggish for the regime's critics, whose demonstrations brought thousands into the streets...