Word: invalided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delicate condition. On April 22 ABC broadcasts the Earth Day Special, featuring Bette Midler as an abused Mother Earth who collapses in a town square, suffering from global warming, deforestation, etc., and gets tended by Drs. Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) and Steven Kiley (James Brolin). Visitors to the invalid include Kevin Costner, Quincy Jones and Meryl Streep...
...Sajudis popular-front movement. In one of his first official acts, Landsbergis proclaimed Lithuania an independent state. The bold show of defiance drew a rebuke from the congress, which overwhelmingly affirmed that Soviet laws "continue to apply on Lithuanian territory." Gorbachev labeled the Lithuanian decision "illegal and invalid," winning applause from the assembly when he ruled out negotiations on the grounds that "you carry out negotiations with a foreign country." On Friday he gave the republic three days to renounce its independence declaration...
...pressed ahead. The republic's Communist Party organization had already declared itself independent and moved closer to Sajudis in an attempt to build some credibility among the voters who now would decide its future. Last month the local parliament declared its 1940 accession to the U.S.S.R. "unlawful and invalid...
...case involving four protesters who set a flag afire in front of the Seattle Post Office, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein found the Flag Protection Act invalid. Rothstein ruled, "Burning the flag as an expression of political dissent . . . does not jeopardize the freedom which we hold dear." Her decision is headed for the nine Justices: the flag law provides for expedited appeal to the Supreme Court, which could hear the case as early...
...neither are most African Americans. It is time for white society to finally realize that the overwhelming of African Americans, like whites, are not crack-smoking, thieving murderers. We must end this inequality of treatment by the police. The persistent negative stereotypes of the African American community are invalid. As with whites, our civil rights must be protected regardless of the supposed acts of one or a few individuals...