Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from overseas, even a two-drug treatment can run to $3,500 a month, or more than 75 times the monthly earnings of poor laborers, who are the prime victims of the disease. "The new drugs will help the yuppies of the world," says Thailand's Mechai Viravaidya, a parliament member and leading advocate of AIDS prevention in Bangkok, "but for most people with AIDS, it's like a dog looking up at an airplane: he can see it, but he can never get a seat...
...stir the masses. It doesn't clarify the IRA's collective character: Are its members insurgents? Martyrs? Thugs? Assassins? Instead the movie piggybacks its own little story, about the growing respect of the two women, onto the dreadfully edifying drama of the Sands campaign, including his election to Parliament on his deathbed. There's a power in these scenes that the rest of the film--a glum First Moms' Club--can't touch...
...hated regime and giddily indulging in a long-overdue chance to lampoon it. They banged spoons on plates to emphasize the depth of Serbia's economic malaise. They marched in front of the state-run TV network holding their noses "because the lies stink so much." They sprayed parliament with detergent (to symbolize the need to clean up corruption). Even as the winter weather turned from surly to mean, the crowd's numbers--and boldness--burgeoned with each passing...
...campaign aides. In it, they discuss ways to slow and then possibly block criminal inquiries into the case of two Yeltsin election workers, detained as they left a government building, allegedly carrying more than half a million dollars in cash. The opposition-dominated Duma, or lower house of parliament, maintains that Yeltsin vastly exceeded the campaign-spending limits and that the dollars were part of an illegal slush fund. The Duma has called on Yeltsin to suspend Chubais until the case is resolved. Yeltsin has not responded...
...British Labor Party leader Tony Blair yesterday on the Conservative Party's loss of its one-vote majority in Parliament...