Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Earth Day 1970 was almost spontaneous, next year's sequel has become a strategic operation. Hayes, who was a 25-year-old Harvard law student when he temporarily dropped out of school to help organize the first Earth Day, is the driving force behind the current campaign. With principal funding from foundations and individuals, Earth Day 1990 has a 115-member American board of directors that includes prominent environmentalists, politicians, business executives, religious leaders, celebrities, labor officials and journalists, among others. There is an international arm with representatives from 33 countries...
Until recently, Newton's First Law was that home prices could only go up. Now residents of that Boston suburb -- and homeowners nationwide -- are having apples dropped on their heads. Suddenly a lot of people are talking about home prices going down. And I don't mean just in Houston (actually, they've begun to recover in Houston) or Billy Joel's penthouse on Central Park South, first offered at $2.8 million, then at $2 million, then $1.5 million, now $1.1 million -- and still unsold. Your average home may be affected...
...their killers have been identified, let alone apprehended by the authorities. Last week long-standing suspicions that police hit squads were behind at least some of the murders were bolstered by State President F.W. de Klerk's decision to order an inquiry. He announced that the Ministry of Law and Order and the Ministry of Justice would conduct a fresh investigation into the allegedly political murders of Mxenge and 79 other victims, whose names were on a list that De Klerk gave to his Justice Minister...
...furor has also hit the media. A recent segment of the popular TV series L.A. Law involved a furrier who sued an animal-rights group for ruining his business. The show aired gruesome video clips of animals caught in brutal leg traps. On an upcoming episode of Designing Women, narcissistic Suzanne Sugarbaker is mauled by anti-fur activists. When Atlanta disk jockey Scott Woodside this month mentioned that he had bought his wife a mink coat, listeners deluged his station with calls. The result was an informal poll in which the anti-fur forces carried...
Just as she has done after every other major coup attempt, the President displayed resolve and dispatch. Aquino peremptorily summoned the country's Senators to Malacanang Palace and bluntly presented them with her declaration of a national state of emergency, the closest thing to martial law that the constitution allowed her to impose. At the People Power rally, Aquino, dressed in her trademark yellow, delivered her toughest speech to date, praising loyalists and accusing her political enemies of colluding with the mutineers. She specifically mentioned Vice President Salvador Laurel, opposition Senator Juan Ponce Enrile and her cousin Eduardo Cojuangco...