Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point, after security forces barged into Rangoon General Hospital, several doctors and nurses, having refused to hand over injured demonstrators, were shot by the soldiers. Radio Rangoon broadcast news of the decapitations of three policemen outside Rangoon and later reported that in the town of North Okkalapa, where two of the executions supposedly took place, 10,000 demonstrators had surrounded an army unit, causing more gunfire...
...Reagan extended his hand to the party's social conservatives, these party leaders say, the party's new task is to diversify itself--and George Bush...
Dukakis, on the other hand, can identify with Hispanics just on the sole reason that he spoke Spanish, and very fluent Spanish, at the Democratic Convention. Dukakis can go out and directly talk to Hispanic voters without anyone having to translate for him. He can talk about his background as the son of an immigrant family and Hispanics will relate to him more than Bush...
...spread of sexual diseases continues, more and more women are acknowledging that the only certain way to know that protection will be available when desired is to provide it themselves. Says Lisa Baroni, a 20-year-old college student: "Better for a woman to have a condom in her hand than for her to hope that...
When the gleaming white space orbiter Discovery moved onto the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early last month, it became both a soaring symbol and a thorny trial for NASA. On one hand, the 122-ft.-tall orbiter represented the agency's successful recovery from the tragic explosion 2 1/2 years ago of Challenger, the last manned U.S. space mission. Discovery was also a test: Could NASA, operating this time around with extraordinary caution and under intense scrutiny, pull off an A-O.K., on-time launch? That question has caused growing frustration in the space...