Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after more than 30 years of struggling to clean up what has become the nation's No. 1 air-pollution problem, California officials have taken decisive action against the primary source of the trouble: the unfettered use of fossil-fuel-burning private vehicles in a city that has long been in love with the automobile. By a vote of 10 to 2, the directors of the south coast air- quality-management district, a regional agency with authority over Los Angeles, last week adopted a sweeping 20-year antipollution plan. It will not only drastically curtail automobile...
...ever said that sports should be above the law; cheating, in fact, has become so rampant that innocence itself would be a crime. When he drugged his way to a gold at the Olympics, Ben Johnson made a mockery not only of the Games' utopian ideals, and of the nation he was representing, but also of all the competitors who were relying only on their natural talents. Yet all of Boggs' cheating, by comparison, was off the field. No one ever accused him of being a dirty player. Nor has anyone shown that his indiscretions affected his performance...
Before the missionary era, the only Christianized black nation was Ethiopia, whose austere art style remained largely unchanged since the Middle Ages. When the first missionaries arrived in other parts of Africa in the 15th century, they sought to stamp out tribal religions and with them idols, ceremonial masks and ancestral images. The artistic tug-of-war intensified during the 19th century as the number of Christian missions mushroomed...
Supreme Court Justices seldom allow themselves to get caught in the rough-and- tumble of local politics. So eyebrows rose when a letter written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was used by archconservative Arizona Republicans to formulate a resolution proclaiming that the U.S. is a "Christian nation...
...Connor, once active in the Arizona G.O.P., wrote the letter last year to Apache Junction Republican Annetta Conant. At Conant's request, the Justice cited three court opinions that, according to O'Connor, were "to the effect that this is a Christian nation...