Word: illing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invasion was almost impossible. Nonetheless the evacuation policy proceeded, partly to show that the Government was busy doing something. There simply was no military need to uproot Japanese-American families. U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle's later assessment should have been made at the time: "The program was ill advised, unnecessary and unnecessarily cruel...
...networks, the worst nightmare is a delay in the fall season. Brandon Stoddard, president of ABC Entertainment, conceded last week that if the strike lasts into June, fall shows may be delayed until November. The networks can ill afford to give viewers more reason to switch to cable channels and videocassettes. Last week the Nielsen ratings showed that the networks' share of the viewing audience shrank 9% during the past season...
...speech, Goldberg did not concentrate on how men can work with other men to change their attitudes. Instead, he advised women about how they should resist sexual violence and how men can help them do so. Such a speech, while well-intentioned, was ill-considered and inappropriate...
...proposed order would exempt from rent control any home whose owner left it for less than two years because of ill health, a sabbatical leave, or certain other obligations...
...Gore, the only candidate who has said that he has tried marijuana, enlisted the support of Mayor Ed Koch, New York City's highest-volume antidrug crusader. Gore's quest has come to resemble Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Wilderness Campaign, a murky and meandering series of ill-conceived firefights in search of a clear battlefield. Gore, Jackson and Dukakis emphasized a theme that is bound to play a role in the fall election: the willingness of Reagan and Bush to cozy up to the Noriega regime even after there was evidence that he was serving as a conduit...