Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saying he would ask for a no-confidence motion this week, Labor Leader Peres charged: "The country has never been in the hands of such an incompetent group with such dangerous ideas." Shamir sought to distance himself from the discredited dollarization scheme, calling it an "unhatched egg." His government's survival may now depend on whether he can persuade someone of stature to take on the thankless task of assuming responsibility for unpopular economic measures. Said a Likud Party member: "What we need is a knight in shining armor, and we do not have one who is suicidal...
...implications have already been discussed, denounced and championed by proponents and opponents of the nuclear freeze. ABC executives are united and adamant about the apolitical nature of their 2-hr. 5-min. presentation. "We never intended the film to be a political statement," claims Brandon Stoddard, president of ABC Motion Pictures and the initiator of the project. "The movie simply says that nuclear war is horrible. That is all it says. That is a very safe statement." Adds the film's director, Nicholas Meyer: "The Day After does not advocate disarmament, build-down, buildup, freeze. I didn...
...inside of every viewer. Carmina Burana transcends its time by becoming a tour de force, encapsulating a series of paradoxes. The dancers constantly intertwine themselves around each other's arms and legs, yet each person remains very distinct. The rhythm of the music intensifies, then plummets down to slow-motion tunes. Pushing and pulling against each other, the dancers seem to create curves like molded clay while posing in angular, geometric forms. Although Carmina Burana is definitely a lusty, almost carnal piece about the bodies and desires of human beings, many of the steps and movements imitate non-living forms...
Vellucci introduced a motion requesting that the University consider bestowing an honorary degree on Rosa Parks, the Black woman whose refusal to yield her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery. Ala., brought national recognition to the 1959 civil rights movement and its young leader, Dr. Martin Luther King...
...Civil Liberties Union had been frantically busy. Led by Stefan Presser in Marshall, Texas, the attorneys, who were newly involved in the case, saw their petitions turned down by two state courts, then by a federal district court. Presser asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to consider his motion for a stay. With no time for the parties to get together, the hearing was convened through a 68-minute conference call, with three appeals judges listening from Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas while Presser and Assistant State Attorney General Leslie Benitez talked from Marshall. The appeals court seemed mindful...