Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control legislation has not been effective in reducing violent crime, and it infringes on the constitutional right to bear arms, a leader in the movement to ease restrictions on gun posession told an audience of 30 last night at the Kennedy School...
...Harvard divest of its holdings in companies that do business in South Africa. The Board is elected by alumni to represent them, and advises the Corporation mainly through its visiting committees which evaluate the University. The Corporation's sudden interest in governance shows its concern over the Board's movement toward an activist role in the University...
...hard for his peace plan in separate meetings with Secretary of State George Shultz, President Reagan and U.S. congressional leaders. Reagan pronounced the idea of a six-month cool- down period "sensible" and indicated a willingness to pursue Mubarak's proposals with Israel and Jordan. In another sign of movement on the peace front, Shultz met earlier in the week with two moderate Palestinian leaders: Hanna Siniora, editor of the East Jerusalem daily Al Fajr, and Fayez Abu Rahme, a prominent Gaza attorney...
...from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or "Lou Gehrig's disease," a progressive deterioration of the central nervous system that usually causes death within three or four years. Hawking's illness has advanced more slowly, and now seems almost to have stabilized. Still, it has robbed him of virtually all movement. He has no control over most of his muscles, cannot dress or eat by himself and needs round-the-clock nursing care...
...Hawking nearly suffocated during a bout with pneumonia, he was given a tracheostomy that enabled him to breathe through an opening in his throat and a tube inserted into his trachea. The operation saved his life but silenced his voice. Now he "speaks" only by using the slight voluntary movement left in his hands and fingers to operate his wheelchair's built-in computer and voice synthesizer...