Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought opposed him. In the 1970s, he ordered thousands of people arrested. By 1976, according to Amnesty International, at least 2,900 citizens had "disappeared." Many were sent to detention camps, where some prisoners were locked in cells that were too small to allow them to stand up or lie down and were put on the infamous "black diet," completely deprived of food or water. Of Guinea's nearly 6 million inhabitants, 2 million now live in exile in the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and other neighboring countries...
Nine days later Jimmy woke up. Recalls Pediatrician Paulette Harar at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where the boy has been since Feb. 28: "He would lie on the bed sucking his thumb, curled up in a little ball. There commands like 'Sit up' or Steadfast work with therapists has helped Jimmy regain control over movement, speech and thought...
...Thatcher was by far the strongest, the shrewdest and the most clear-sighted player in the game. A statesman is a leader who, knowing where the true interests of the nation lie, resists counsel that .clashes with conviction. Margaret Thatcher belongs in that company. But when I say that in the Falklands, the West was given a great victory by Britain, I do not mean the defeat of Argentinian soldiers by British soldiers. British arms prevailed, but principle triumphed. The will of the West...
...burden of proof must always lie with the government when it makes such charges of international gravity. But Meselson's position only appears convincing if he is given the benefit of the doubt on each separate point--a dubious proposition at best...
...reply to President Bok I pointed out that the distinction he made between lying and failing to disclose did not fully dispose of the matter. Witnesses in a court of law are put under oath not only not to lie, but to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth President Bok's position. I felt, made it clear that he would disapprove of a Harvard official's lying about the university's relations with the FBI during the McCarthy period, but he would not disapprove of the refusal of a Harvard official to reveal what...