Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spring of 1990 the Faculty of Arts andSciences issued an ultimatum. If the military didnot lift ban on gays and lesbians within two yearsthe Harvard the faculty would sever all ties withROTC...
Another factor influencing the debate may bethe presidential election. Democrat Bill Clintonhas promised to lift the ban on gays and lesbiansin the armed forces. A Clinton victory in Novembercould drastically alter the faculty's debate...
...other networks are catching youth fever. NBC is undergoing an almost complete face-lift, dumping several of its proven but aging hits (Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, Golden Girls) and repopulating its schedule with shows aimed at the magic 18-49 age group. Among the new entries: Here and Now, with former Cosby kid Malcolm-Jamal Warner as a graduate student working at a neighborhood youth center; Rhythm and Blues, about a white disk jockey at a black radio station; and The Round Table, featuring young law-enforcement professionals in Washington. "At eight o'clock across the board...
...Haven's health department. The New Haven workers spoke out about the value of needle exchange at civic meetings, classrooms and churches. Then, after building support from the ground up, they forced the issue into local elections. A special act of the state legislature was required to lift the ban on possession of hypodermics. After lobbying by health workers, the measure passed easily. Their efforts also helped defuse the race issue. "One thing was surely true," says black state representative William Dyson. "To do nothing was to ensure genocide...
Bartley's main error is his narrow focus on a few pet theories and prescriptions and the inevitable special pleading this entails. "The moral of the Seven Fat Years is that economic growth counts," he writes. But the rising tide of '80s-style growth failed to lift all boats as advertised: the rich got bigger yachts, the middle class foundered, and many of the poor went under. The task for the 1990s will be to move beyond the excesses and inequities of the debt decade rather than strive to return to a Golden Age that never existed...