Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some helpful responses, Administration sources indicate, would include free passage out of China for Fang Lizhi, the dissident astrophysicist who took refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing last June and is still there; the lifting of martial law in Beijing and Tibet; Chinese pressure on the murderous Khmer Rouge to allow a political settlement in Cambodia, and amnesty for pro- democracy demonstrators...
Supporters of the law argue that Japan cannot provide basic services such as education and medical care to the unskilled immigrants, who are concentrated in low-paying construction and manufacturing jobs that Japanese often shun. But opponents charge that the crackdown will "push Asian laborers into even more inferior working conditions and further Japan's xenophobia...
...thugs and well-heeled thieves. Moments later the story shifts to the office (coyly labeled a "cell") where his creator labors as a hireling of a movie tycoon more crass, smug and fascinatingly awful than any envisioned by Nathanael West. As the tycoon (Rene Auberjonois) lays down the law (no social criticism, no politics, no hint of kinky sex), the moneystruck young writer (Gregg Edelman) peevishly retypes his scenes -- and, in an inspired bit of playfulness, that action causes his characters to move and speak jerkily backward, as if a film were being rewound, until they are back in position...
...Clark, who has made the Law School so tense...
...municipal workers and teachers, the Senate plan would change a law that now requires contribution of an equal dollar amount to health premiums by employers to one that would require an equal percentage contribution...