Word: got
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movement's message has become like a tiresome and empty reverberation of a steel drum upon disinterested ears. If minorities are ever to move beyond the call for true equality and actually achieve it on all levels in this nation, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s has got to give way to an updated version suitable for the 1990s...
...situation got so bad that by July the wildly-fluctuating Argentine currency (the austral) had fallen during the past year from a value of about $1.25 to roughly one-seventh of a cent. Every Monday morning, the banks were flooded with people desperately trying to change their fast-depreciating australs to U.S. dollars, the de facto national currency that is welcomed almost anywhere...
...Western Europe totally escaped the scourges of drugs and violence. Yet many West Europeans are not only matching Americans in material wealth, but they also believe themselves to be enjoying a better quality of life. "I don't know what America has to offer me that I haven't got already and that I would envy," says British architect Ian Grant. "There's no intellectual challenge at all. The only challenge is making money...
Last week McAfee got his wish. Superior Court Judge Edward Johnson of Fulton County, Ga., ruled that McAfee's right to refuse life-sustaining treatment outweighed the state's interest in preserving life. "The ventilator to which he is attached is not prolonging his life; it is prolonging his death," said Johnson. With the court's authorization, McAfee plans to move from a nursing home to a friend's apartment and end his life by using a mouth-activated timer to shut off the ventilator after medical personnel have sedated...
...preachments about the particularly addictive nature of cocaine to mean, choose prudently from the cornucopia of other drugs available at your local high school. How much easier the burden must be for a parent who can honestly instruct his children, "Don't tell me about peer pressure. Remember, I got through the '60s without drugs...