Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salinas staged a hunger strike this monthuntil the government cleared him of any wrongdoingin the 1994 assassination of former presidentialcandidate Luis Donaldo Colosio...
Holton says the Chinese scientists had a "greathunger" for a scientific philosophy which wouldallow them to break away from their outdatedtexts. Holton says this hunger for new ideas isencouraging but fragile, since it can besuppressed at any moment by a dictatorship...
...tease out their secrets. It hasn't been until the past decade, in fact, that astronomers have had powerful telescopes like the Hubble out in space and the Keck atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, ultrafast supercomputers and super-sensitive electronic light detectors to give them the data they hunger for. In a very real sense, cosmology has only lately crossed the dividing line from theology into true science...
Appearances can be deceiving, for hunger and its particular dangers cannot always be seen from the outside. Rickets may seem like a quaint problem, or the answer to a trivia quiz, but school administrators still know firsthand what it is like to deal with a child who is not getting enough to eat. Linda Butcher, coordinator for health services in Oxnard elementary school district, a California agricultural community with about 14,000 students, says that before her schools applied for the School Breakfast Program, students would start feeling sick in the middle of the morning. Instead of playing during recess...
Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari began a hunger strike, demanding that his name be cleared of rumors that he allowed the coverup of an assassination. Salinas said: "It's a question of personal honor." The ex-president's downward slide began Tuesday, when his brother Raul Salinas was arrested for allegedly plotting a high-level murder. Wednesday, he withdrew his candidacy for chairman of the World Trade Organization. Thursday, prosecutors said President Salinas himself could be charged with impeding a probe of another killing -- the March 1994 shooting of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, whom Salinas...