Word: openers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both sides keep a wary eye on the other's construction efforts, and a massive outbreak of violence followed an Israel decision to open a new access tunnel in September 1996. But despite Jewish objections, the Labor government of newly elected prime minister Ehud Barak could see the logic of adding additional exits and worshiping space in a mosque that draws tens of thousands of Muslims to prayer. More important, Barak deemed any attempt to stop the construction as likely to inflame tensions at a point when the city least needs them. The Temple Mount "is the most sensitive place...
...There is something fundamentally mysterious about revolving doors. They are doors, and yet they can never be successfully knocked on, left open, or used to pull out rotten teeth. Moreover, they can take you right back to where you started. They are the campus's little turbines of doom, with faces smashed against their walls and students flying out of them, screaming. The "scoot" and The Superman are brave attempts to navigate these treacherous passageways, to tame the wild spinners...
Gore added that many gay advocates and civil rights leaders opposed Bradley's plan to open up the Civil Rights Act to possible alteration by Congressional Republicans...
...must give the collective community a second chance to go beyond rhetoric and open wounds and help people who have become permanent pariahs," he said...
Their proposed Second Chance legislation would be open to criminals convicted of no more than two non-violent, non-sexual felonies...