Word: null
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1970s. In 1974, Arafat appeared before the U.N. General Assembly with his machine gun strapped to his waist. He refused to recognize U.N. Resolution 242, that which planned out the basis for Middle East peace negotiations. He remained loyal to a charter which recognized the State of Israel as "null and void" and insisted that "armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine." This was his ideology, and according to the guidelines of these principles did he govern himself and the organization which he led. That the P.L.O. in general and Arafat in particular were objectively considered terrorists...
...scientific terms, the prosecutors never attempted to prove the null hypothesis--an alternative hypothesis which is the converse of that in which one believes," Wiseman wrote. "In the Demjanjuk case, attempting to prove the null hypothesis would have led the government investigators and attorneys to look for evidence that someone other than John Demjanjuk was Ivan the Terrible...
...fact, the PLO does seek to deny the Israeli people the right to self-determination, even to the point of destroying the state of Israel. According to the PLO's charter, the Palestine National Covenant, "the partioning of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of Israel are fundamentally null and void." Furthermore, Yassar Arafat, chair of the PLO, has often expressed this viewpoint...
...been worked out with Russian republic leader Boris Yeltsin, his chief domestic rival. When Gorbachev substituted a watered-down plan, Yeltsin rejected it with contempt. Though Gorbachev talked the Supreme Soviet into giving him the power to rule virtually by decree, the republics declared many of his decrees null and void, leading to what both sides rightly called an intolerable "war of laws...
...theory, to govern virtually by decree amount to the unheard roars of a paper tiger. In some cases the Kremlin and the republics have been playing out a ritualized farce. The center, as it is now called, issues a Gorbachev decree; one or more republics declare it to be null and void on their territory; Gorbachev issues a second order declaring that these null-and-void declarations are themselves null and void...