Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Compelling a person to produce a urine sample on demand . . . intrudes deeply on privacy and bodily integrity." Normally conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who joined his more liberal colleagues in dissenting from the Customs decision, was equally sharp: "The Customs Service rules are a kind of immolation of privacy and human dignity in symbolic opposition to drug...
...than $4.25. Last week the House passed a measure that would gradually increase the wage to $4.55 by 1992. The Senate, scheduled to take up the issue next week, is unlikely to adopt a rate any closer to Bush's limit. Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, has sponsored a proposal that would boost the rate to $4.65 an hour...
Publicly, the U.S. reacted cautiously to ARENA's victory. The State Department reminded Cristiani that "our relationship with the new government will depend on its adherence to democracy and respect for human rights." Privately, officials fear El Salvador will once again find itself polarized between ultra-right and far left, with no centrist, reformist government to protect the disenfranchised masses against the violence of both...
...Muslim holy man. What he says relies on Islamic principles and rules he believes in. He discusses matters in ways different from the way you and I discuss issues. There are Islamic provisions which apply to cases like that of Rushdie. But irrespective of other issues, Rushdie as a human being is a bad fellow, and his behavior provokes suspicion...
Doctors have long known about other risk factors for cervical cancer, including sexual activity at an early age and sex with multiple partners. And they have implicated some types of human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes genital warts, as the probable culprit. The University of Utah researchers, however, could only speculate about a possible mechanism by which smoking may cause cervical cancer. Harmful components of cigarette smoke, they suggest, may travel through the blood into the tissues of the cervix and somehow activate the virus...