Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the younger attorneys at the Middlesex courthouse deny that gender plays a large role in their everyday routines. Jo Ann Stringer, another public defender, says: "I feel very grateful to the women's movement, but I'm still figuring out how to be a good attorney, not a good woman attorney...
...tussle adds to U.S. fears that Europe's movement toward a unified market in 1992 will raise increasing barriers to outside competition. The beef war already shows signs of escalating. E.C. officials are preparing a list of U.S. food imports as counterretaliatory targets. Among them: dried fruit, canned corn and honey...
Wasn't that a time? Each year of the early 1960s brought new images of heroism and horror as the civil rights movement spread through the South like kudzu. 1960: four Negro students sit in at a Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter. 1961: the Congress of Racial Equality inaugurates its Freedom Rides to integrate Southern bus terminals. 1962: in Oxford, Miss., James Meredith enters Ole Miss, its first black student since Reconstruction...
...appointment of Likud's Moshe Arens, the hawkish former Ambassador to Washington, to replace Labor leader Shimon Peres as Foreign Minister in Shamir's 26-member Cabinet. Peres, under strong pressure from his party to ensure a government bailout of the troubled Histadrut labor federation and the kibbutz movement, the twin pillars of Labor support, opted instead for the finance portfolio. Peres insists he will continue to speak out on foreign policy issues as leader of the Labor Party. But it will be Shamir and Arens who finally give Israel one official voice on diplomatic matters...
...waste into Lake Ladoga, the source of drinking water for 6 million people. Many of the political demonstrations in the Baltic States are linked to the environment. Said Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University: "In almost every republic in which there is a movement for independence or the assertion of political rights, it has been led by an environmental movement...