Word: intact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end, the lords adjourned without reaching a decision. The main argument put forward by Geoffrey's lawyers was that if Christabel had had a lover prior to her marriage, then she could not also have had an intact hymen. John's lawyers offered, unsuccessfully, to introduce results of blood tests of the late third baron's blood as evidence in the complicated paternity issue. Whatever the lords eventually decide, the only person who knew for sure about Geoffrey's parentage will never tell. Serenely confident and "without one backward look that saddens...
Civil war in Angola erupted against last fall after the breakdown of the coalition government's elections. The October, 1975 polling has little in common with the Chilean fiasco, where a socialist regime attempted to assume power through the ballot box, leaving intact the fascist network of its predecessors. Rather in Angola the population had already fought an arduous 14 year war against the Portuguese minority regime for the very sake of establishing a socialist state under majority rule. During the transitional period last year, the Portuguese Armed Forces Movement conducted and published monthly polls on the relative popularity...
...some if not all of the elites. History and Literature, for one, has already testified before the task force against a change, arguing, according to one task force member, with a certain "historical pomposity" that the concentration was the first elite and that it should therefore be left intact...
...vulgar curiosity. But even self-criticism must have its limits, and we should not forget that keeping in touch remains a sign of an ancient faith, inherited from our Revolution: that enlightenment will eventually bring its own reward and that a form of truth can somehow emerge, battered but intact, from the mass of information that both obscures and protects...
SPENDING LIMITS. The law's basic rule limiting to $1,000 the campaign contributions from individuals to a single candidate in a single election was left intact. In addition, "political committees" can still give up to only $5,000 to any candidate. Contrary to the claims of the law's opponents, the court argued that these restrictions were only "marginal" infringements of the First Amendment's free speech and freedom of association provisions. But, on the ground that they were "substantial" restraints of First Amendment rights, the court eliminated the ceilings on campaign spending. During the general...