Word: formed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least those with state money) is use the force of government to contain freedom of speech. What Donald Wildmon, the free-lance moralist from Tupelo, Miss., does when he gets Pepsi to cancel its Madonna ad is censure the ad by calling for a boycott. Advocating boycotts is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. As Nat Hentoff, journalistic custodian of the First Amendment, says, "I would hate to see boycotts outlawed. Think what that would do to Cesar Chavez." Or, for that matter, to Ralph Nader. If one disapproves of a social practice, whether it is racist...
Bonang joins Veneziano and Assistant SID Julie Rice to form the three-person Harvard Sports Information staff in charge of media relations and publicity for the 41-sport Harvard athletic program...
...come home after work, look through the mail, fix dinner, do some gardening, and before you know it, I'm falling asleep in front of "L.A. Law." I throw dinner parties. I was sent a form letter to join the PTA, and I read it with interest...
...application of in vitro fertilization has moved almost overnight from the lab to the clinic." Shannon, who teaches at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, might have added, and into the law courts as well. Like many other modern technological wonders, the artificial union of sperm and ovum to form a zygote, which is then frozen for eventual implantation in a woman's womb, has gone from the near miraculous to the almost mundane -- and ultimately to the moral dilemma. One current legal case addresses two of the key ethical questions raised by in vitro technology: Who should exercise primary rights...
...well off have found the promise of a warm embrace in other Western countries, Hong Kong's working class has felt trapped. So last week, when Singapore announced that it would admit 25,000 white- and blue-collar workers over the next eight years, lines instantly began to form outside the city-state's visa offices in downtown Hong Kong...