Word: oppositionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The corporation is slow to change for an obvious reason. Its members are chosen for life. There are informal rulesathat a member doesn t stay past the age of 70, that each member is reviewed after five yearsathat encourage turnover. But there is no set term for Corporation members. They...
In other business, the council voted on and approved a resolution joining Boston, Chelsea and other communities in opposition to a Massport proposal to build a new runway at Logan Airport which would lead to increased air traffic over those cities and over Cambridge.
The project, called "Runway 14/32," would lead to "a tripling of planes in this direction," said James M. Williamson, a Cambridge resident and a member of the runway opposition group Communities Against Runway Expansion (CARE).
In coming days, they'll be going after more targets, many of them mobile. That will require more planes. Last week most allied planes did their bombing from about 25,000 ft. And much of the opposition was easy to handle: on five occasions, NATO planes downed Yugoslav MiG-29s...
Much of his strength lies in the weakness of his enemies. In 1996 the Serb President did suffer a scare when three months of protests over fraudulent elections filled the streets with disillusioned citizens demanding democratic change. But he held out long enough to allow the opposition to self-destruct...