Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also warned Hong Kong residents who try to help the mainland democracy movement that they should not "lift a rock only to crush their own feet." The British colony reverts to Chinese rule...
...extreme who feel that a fetus is a mass of dependent protoplasm to be extracted without regret and those at the other pole who believe that an embryo deserves protection from the moment of conception. With Roe in place, politicians could pay rhetorical homage to the pro-life movement without having to act on their professed dislike of abortion. Pro-choice groups, confident that the Roe ruling had established an unassailable constitutional right, grew smug and complacent...
Nevertheless, O'Connor is the pro-choice movement's best hope in the three abortion cases that the court agreed to hear in its next term, which begins in October. Two of the cases involve parental notification; the third, from Illinois, requires that facilities where abortions are performed must meet stringent hospital-level licensing standards, a step so costly that it could force many clinics to shut down. Any of the cases could give the Justices an opportunity to attack Roe directly...
...story was similar in ministry after ministry: no records, not even paper clips. Had members of Andreas Papandreou's outgoing Panhellenic Socialist Movement spirited away documents that might be incriminating? Their administration stands accused of large-scale corruption, including embezzlement and taking kickbacks. Angry politicians suggested that stripping the offices was also an act of revenge. Some PASOK officials admitted as much. Sniffed one: "It was a show of our disapproval of the way this government was formed...
...democracy movement is at a low point," says Yang, "we can do it here--use the foreign countries and students as a base for the prodemocracy movement...