Word: kicking
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...future, it will be easier to deport foreigners who took part in training in terror camps or who incite hatred," said Günther Beckstein, Interior Minister of Christian Social Union-ruled Bavaria. That's got civil libertarians worried. The law should "not mean we can reject people or kick them out for expressing their opinions," says Reinhard Bütikofer, chairman of the Green Party. But Bütikofer concedes the new law will also make it easier for asylum seekers to seek residence in Germany, especially those who are threatened by non-state militias, and women who face...
...John Howard asked Parliament to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The discussion in France reaches a milestone this Saturday when Green Party leader Noël Mamère, in his capacity as mayor of the Bordeaux suburb of Bègles, will kick off the June season with France's first gay wedding by marrying Bertrand Charpentier, 31, a nurse's aide, and Stéphane Chapin, 33, a warehouse worker...
...sometimes get a kick out of looking at an extra copy of the exam,” McDonough says, though she says she never looks at the students’ responses...
...Bruce Lee!" he exclaims, a grin stretching across his bronzed face. "Everybody wanted to be Bruce Lee!" But this was Poland, 1981 - the communist regime had imposed martial law to suppress opposition, and the authorities didn't like the idea of all those teens gathering nightly to chop and kick like the kung-fu movie star. They ended the training sessions "under the pretext of renovating the gym," Korzeniowski says. "Of course they never finished, and athletics was the only session open." Walking was his destiny. In 1984, he qualified for the Polish championships, where he placed last. But competing...
...withholding necessary approvals, threatening punishment to those who ignore a prohibition on converting agricultural land to other uses and requiring entrepreneurs to risk more of their own money. For example, investors in steel mills previously had to put up only 25% of a project's value. Now they must kick...