Word: filings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jakes's humiliation within the party began on July 17, when a videocassette circulated among rank-and-file Communists that showed Jakes berating an assembly of provincial party chiefs for failing to implement his directives. With characteristic ineloquence, he scolded his underlings for leaving him "standing like a lonely stake in a fence." Says a Prague journalist: "Jakes was turning into a party joke...
...Wells volcano is twelve miles away, and Nevada ranks just behind Alaska and California in frequency of earthquakes. As a result, Nevada has refused to issue the environmental permits needed for a study of the site. The DOE announced last week that it has asked the Justice Department to file suit against the state...
...order to be placed on the ballot for theDemocratic primary, Silber must file a letter ofintent with the Democratic State Committee byJanuary 20. In addition, he must either gain 15percent of the delegate votes at the DemocraticConvention in June, or submit a petition signed by500 of the delegates
...field of public policy, no one is better than Rifkin in the martial arts of social activism: lawsuits, petitions, debates, lectures and media manipulations. Each year the three attorneys on the staff of his Washington- based Foundation on Economic Trends file about six lawsuits and threaten more. Among other causes, he has battled surrogate motherhood, animal patenting and agricultural experiments involving open-air use of genetically altered bacteria. He tried to delay the launch of the Galileo spacecraft by warning that a shuttle explosion could rain plutonium on Florida. In Wisconsin he has helped start a boycott of dairy products...
Another concern raised was that in extreme cases, students who file complaints are never told what action is taken against defendants, Ryan said...