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Word: objects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most doctors who opposed the sale continue to object to commercial medicine, but seen resigned to the prospect. They say that because the hospital faces serious financial questions which may have to be solved in unconventional ways, they must work with the administration to make sure their concerns are heard...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: McLean May Be Leased To For-Profit Company | 6/5/1984 | See Source »

...room school house, he addressed a group of strangers, and dozens of noisy children and weeping widows. After some urging, several of the women solemnly stepped forward to relate their personal tragedies. Others turned their backs to us and cried uncontrollably, even though the object of their grief occurred four months prior to our arrival. All of the women testified to having been "humiliated" or raped by the Contras. Trinidad Garcia de Castro, standing with her children by her side, said that her 14 year old sister, a teacher, was kidnapped by the invaders from Honduras, 40 kilometers...

Author: By Philip W.D. Morten, | Title: The Road to Pantasma | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...Gaddafi favored and the Muslim students fiercely opposed. So did many older Libyans, who were appalled at the idea of teen-age girls serving in army camps alongside men. When conscription for women was finally defeated in February by the People's Congress, the two students became the object of the government's wrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Havoc at Home, Too, for Gaddafi | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...Third, I object to the entirely unsupported assertion that the Council's effectiveness has been "strangled" this year Council reports have already affected freshman advising and spring break meal plans, to name but two topics. Council-administered grants funds during this semester alone have supported everything from table tennis to Dido and Aeneas, from the wry humor behind. "Burt Ward-at-Harvard weekend" to the awesome vitality of Citystep. The Council has also been "effective" in bringing R E M., the Sex Execs, the "Yale Taigate," and the "Island Party" to thousands of Harvard students. Perhaps the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Procedure | 5/11/1984 | See Source »

Some critics are worried that monitoring Waste Management's vessels would be difficult. Over the past year the company has been battling charges of improper handling of toxic materials at various of its landlocked disposal sites around the nation. Others object to toxic wastes being trucked to and stored at dockside facilities. Says John Vaughn, a Lake Charles, La., municipal official: "We know there is a problem with hazardous wastes, but we don't want to solve it for all of Louisiana, Alabama, Texas and Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Destroying Toxic Wastes at Sea | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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