Word: greiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Figure that her wheelchair is her legs. Would someone pick a person up and move them?" asked Lorraine Greiff, director of the Massachusetts Office on Disability. "You can't just take away someone's liberties by picking them up and treating them like they were a pencil that fell to the floor. Does that rise to the level of assault? I don't know, but I would say that it's as serious as pushing," she said...
...Greiff said she had not heard of many assaultcases where the physical contact involved only theclaimant's wheelchair...
...move an errant child but you don'thear too often about adults being moved likethat," Greiff said...
...droughts as well as floods. Temperature differences increase, and that causes more and heavier storms and other natural catastrophes. You have to pay attention to all the connections in climate because everything is related. You cannot separate one phenomenon from the climate as a whole. THOMAS FEHER and BENJAMIN GREIFF Dresden, Germany...
Ties had already been strained by a battle of wills between Clinton Administration officials and Prosecutor-General De Greiff, who had pursued plea-bargain deals with major traffickers, offering them as little as three years in prison in exchange for guilty pleas. U.S. officials denounced the program, and in response cut off a scheme in which they shared evidence with Colombian prosecutors. More recently, the Clinton Administration suspended an operation in which AWACS surveillance aircraft identified for Colombian law enforcement small planes thought to be carrying drugs; in what was seen as a conciliatory move, the U.S. last week announced...