Word: interpretative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distance from me of no less than 50 centimeters. Thus through TIME, I wish to advise all of the women of the world, including North Americans, to please stay a distance of no less than one kilometer away from this wicked Evtushenko, because immediately some reporters could interpret this as "amor-r-r," with three Rs. Be careful of Russian poets...
...showing that various ex-offenders receiving federal aid often return to crime anyway. "The real relationship between crime and unemployment (or poverty) is probably complex, not simple...we might discover that as unemployment rates go up, crime rates go up," Wilson concludes. "One's natural instinct would be to interpret this as meaning that rising unemployment causes rising crime. But rising crime might as easily cause rising unemployment...
...have a clear mandate. Ambassadors of the four countries delivered separate letters to Lebanese Foreign Minister Elie Salem, acceding to his government's request to send troops. Though the letters spoke of assisting the government in restoring its authority in the Beirut area, the four contingents interpret their instructions differently. The U.S. Marines, for example, have been the only ones to train Lebanese soldiers regularly in such skills as hand-to-hand fighting and helicopter assaults. Says a British officer: "We have defined our operations according to what each of us does best." The present division of labor...
...Prime Minister and other politicians believe that the Supreme Court might interpret unborn as meaning everything that precedes the stage in pregnancy when the fetus is capable of being born, roughly the 28th week of pregnancy, thus legally permitting at least some abortions where none were allowed before...
...sides agreed that the statute in question is hazy and conceded that the state election commission will likely be forced to interpret it. It is doubtful that either party would accept that ruling however and the matter could well end up in superior court lawyers for both sides predicted...