Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chilling effects of the disclosure of these types of documents is real and has the potential to harm the quality of decisions," Schwartz said. But, he added, "as a general matter, we take the public right to know very seriously...
While few Californians are likely to believe that Prince Charles and Princess Diana send their dirty linen to San Diego, the ads were enough to offend Anglophiles in the area and draw two letters of complaint from the British consulate-general in Los Angeles...
...suspects on both coasts. In the most fully investigated case so far, former Merrill Lynch Broker William Dillon, 33, is believed to have paid employees at a magazine printing plant in Connecticut to give him copies of Business Week a full day before the issue was available to the general public so he could buy stocks recommended in the "Inside Wall Street" column before the price went up. Dillon typically paid $30 an issue, but allegedly reaped profits of $2,000 or more a week...
...pure welfare system--in which poor people would be given specific amounts of money to compensate for their low income--is bound to continue to be intensely criticized because it goes against basic American values. Welfare isolates and degrades its recipients, while fostering distrust and animosity among the general public, he argues...
...would lead to reform was quickly extinguished last week. Three days after Ne Win stepped down, the Socialist Program Party, Burma's sole legal political body, chose his protege, Sein Lwin, 64, as its new leader; the next day parliament named him the country's President. A retired army general, Sein Lwin is the longtime head of the dread riot police, the Lon Htein, and one of Burma's most feared men. He lived up to his nickname "the Butcher" when he ruthlessly suppressed student riots earlier this year...