Word: planked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plank calls for seven minority groups to share a total of two votes on the administrative committee, and several Faculty members at the meeting questioned why other minority groups had not been included...
...Khazei said that after the implementation committee "explained the history of the [minority] plank--why and how it was put in--people were pretty receptive...
...After the constitutional committee people explained the history of the plank--why and how it was put in--people were pretty receptive," Khazei said...
...consider the nationalization plan excessive. The Conseil d'Etat, a 199-man body that advises the government on the constitutionality of legislation, warned that it might be discriminatory to take over French companies while leaving foreign ones in private hands. But Mitterrand remained loyal to a central plank in the Common Program he signed with the Communists in 1972. Declared the President last week at his first press conference since taking office: "We thought the government of France had the right to decide what is and what is not to be nationalized." And he showed no remorse about arousing...
...sandwiched between two upright wooden shafts, is quietly carted into the prison's exercise yard before dawn. The convict is aroused at 5:30 and offered a cigarette and a glass of rum. Then, bound and blindfolded, he is strapped, face down, neck bared, to the shoulder-high plank. A switch trips and the heavy, razor-sharp blade falls...