Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perfect because the oppression in El Salvador is so obvious, the regime so gross and unsophisticated. Three U.S. Congressmen visited the country to see for themselves; their conversations with Salvadoran refugees were reported to the House in March of last year. One transcript read like this: "If people were caught in the village, they (the Salvadoran army) would kill them. Women and children alike. She said that with pregnant women they would cut open the stomachs and take the babies out...She said they would flee and they would give their children cold tortillas and a little bit of sugar...
...reaching the current level of "strategic parity plus," he added, the Soviets have come from a position of "gross strategic inferiority," and have gained several new "power projection" capabilities in Western Europe...
...reaching effects of such an ordinance, though, are scary. Currently, developers are suing the city in an effort to overturn the ordinance. If the amendment exempting two buildings was ever passed, surely any sensible judge would be tempted to throw the entire law out the window as a gross violation of equal protection. And if that happens, the condo gold rush will be on again and every tenant in the city will once more live in fear. The law protects all tenants too poor to buy their own apartments, and guarantees that there will be rental housing in the city...
...week of New York Supreme Court Judge Edward Greenfield, 58, on Actress Brooke Shields, 16. At the end of a four-day trial, Greenfield ruled that Brooke and her mother, Teri Shields, could not halt further publication of nude photographs of Brooke taken six years ago by Photographer Garry Gross. Published in a book called Sugar and Spice, the shots show Brooke standing demurely in a bathtub. The judge called Mama Teri "exploitative," and added: "You had a role in choosing her films. You chose Endless Love, not Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...
...hikes emerge from Chairman Pete Domenici's Senate Budget Committee, thereby taking some of the onus for the increases off the White House. But Regan apparently convinced the President that such huge tax increases would mean that the Federal Government would be spending almost as much of the gross national product at the end of Reagan's four-year term (22.2%) as in his first year (23.5%). The President responded warmly to that plea at a meeting of his top advisers on Monday, saying: "I didn't come here to balance the budget. I was elected...