Word: held
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commission's wide-ranging investigation has helped to open the country's eyes to the plight of Aborigines. Ever since the First Fleet arrived from England in 1788 carrying British convicts, the Aborigines have been retreating from the land they held for 40,000 years -- to the outback and more recently to the seedy fringes of urban society...
...between pornography and art. The painting has little to do with lesbian perceptions of sex: it is a seraglio scene, an enactment for men's eyes only. But despite the corniness of the flowers and pearls that allegorize Luxury, the creamy rose of those bodies, shadowed with olive and held within the complicated machinery of the pose, is a breathtaking pictorial achievement...
...they marched through the streets, the Africans rallied foreign students from campuses of other universities along the way. At the station, riot troops herded roughly 150 foreign students, including four Americans, onto buses and confined them in a hotel 50 miles away. At week's end they were being held incommunicado while diplomats negotiated with Beijing officials for their release. Meantime, some demonstrators demanded that provincial-government leaders "punish the ruffians to promote the country's honor," while other Chinese students marched on the railway station, not knowing the foreigners had already been taken away...
Mitnick, who was arraigned last week in Los Angeles and is being held without bail, faces a possible 30 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. His alleged crimes include gaining illegal access to computers at Digital Equipment Corp., in Massachusetts, and at the University of Leeds, in England, and stealing valuable computer programs and long-distance phone services. Prosecutors assert that it cost Digital $4 million to repair and upgrade its computer-security program after Mitnick's intrusion. He is believed to be the first person charged under a new federal law that prohibits breaking into an interstate...
...flaws in Hampton's logic are particularly disturbing because they betray a widely held belief that homosexual relations somehow "hurt" others. This reasoning is an implicit approval of the violent actions against gays epitomized by this murder...