Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than in sex. Her son Rick (Andrew Ott), who has always been afraid of women, is now a member of a London sect devoted to parent hatred, which doesn't make her feel any better. Aside from the uptight Gerald, her only companion is her antagonistic sister-in-law, an incompetent Cornish cook with a reincarnation fetish...
Mobil's decision was prompted by a change in U.S. tax law that was intended to drive American companies out of South Africa. Since last year U.S. companies can no longer deduct from their American tax bills the taxes they pay to the South African government. That change, which cost Mobil millions in 1988, finally broke its stubborn resolve to stay. Said Mobil Chairman Allen Murray: "This was a difficult decision because we continue to believe that our presence and our actions have contributed greatly to economic and social progress for nonwhites in South Africa...
...time they pushed for a new campaign against government corruption -- an increasingly popular issue among the masses -- and for China's leaders to make public their personal financial holdings. "Many of these students took part in the 1986-87 protests," said a graduate of the University of Politics and Law who is now a government official. "They have learned their lessons, and they now know which means would work and which would...
...several months during the last war," he complained to reporters while traveling in West Berlin. "The treatment we receive in Moscow is just about like the treatment we internees received then." Soviet officials considered his remarks ! "slanderous attacks . . . in a rude violation of generally recognized norms of international law." Soon afterward Secretary of State John Foster Dulles terminated his career...
...Diet's tradition of consensus to push the budget through the lower house without the participation of the opposition parties. They had refused to take part until former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, in office when the most flagrant abuses occurred, testified about his role. The budget will probably become law in 30 days, and Takeshita will step down...