Word: major
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conference is focusing on three major issues related to the labor movement and the working class: health care reform, tax policy and the criminal justice system...
...rookies made an impressive showing at Brown, especially defenseman Aaron Kim who logged a major amount of ice time. Kim moved up to join senior Matt Scorsune as the Crimson's top offensive threats from the blueline, a preseason concern after the graduation of Ben Storey...
...where he laments the way American Top 40 music has corrupted global culture. Indeed, Top 40 music is often idiotic and profoundly uninteresting; however, Liebert makes the mistake of conflating Top 40 with rock music in general. Top-40 is produced and promoted by a few profit-seeking major record labels like RCA, Columbia, and Warner Brothers, which release same-sounding music in hopes of discovering the next big hit. This "rock star" approach is deeply at odds with a more vital function of rock music, that of political, social and cultural protest. As Liebert observes, it's a shame...
...care deeply about the issue of race, but so far Bradley and Gore have been quite close on race, so it hasn't become a major issue," Edley says...
...regulations at their 32 coal-burning plants. The Clean Air Act of 1970 allowed existing plants to continue production without undergoing the costly modernization process required to bring them up to speed with new regulations. Companies were permitted to perform only routine maintenance at the plants, and if any major renovations were undertaken, the plants had to be modernized to meet federal standards. The seven companies under fire decided to dodge these guidelines by claiming multimillion-dollar upgrades were routine maintenance, according to EPA administrator Carol Browner. The government is demanding speedy upgrades in all the offending plants...