Word: minimall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In possibly the most important of the issues to go before the council last year--reform of the disciplinary system--the council was captured by the administration. Rather than standing firm as the students' voice, the council leaders submitted to the deans and accepted window dressings in place of actual...
Police are concerned that the relaxed regulations do not set minimal competency standards for using firearms and reduce to 48 hours the maximum cooling-off period for purchasing a handgun. Stricter criteria were required in some counties under local ordinances, which the state law supersedes. In Broward County, for example...
The authority of the charismatic despot who drives the crazy state rests largely on a myth of invincibility. That myth is best punctured from the outside. So long as the outside world cowers, accommodates and appeases, that authority grows unchallenged. Munich is the model. Once the outside world returns fire...
Many of the Dutch blame politicians for encouraging permissiveness that engenders crime. Others accuse the courts, specifically judges whose views were shaped in the 1960s and '70s and who continue to hand out minimal, sometimes absurdly lenient, sentences. In one notable case last year a young man was stabbed to...
Stragetic Nuclear Forces. The critical question, says Hyland, is whether Gorbachev is willing "to recognize something along the lines of our version of stability." That would require the Soviets to cut their huge arsenal of silo-busting warheads, which pose a first-strike threat that could pre-empt the ability...