Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some drivers sounded the horns of their vehicles shortly after Delvalle made his announcement, and some groups could be seen waving white handkerchiefs. Both are signs of protest used by Noriega's opponents...
Such signs of mutual concern and interdependence reassure social scientists and policymakers. In fact the whole age-war scenario, some charge, is a political distortion, designed to stir up passion and protest about what should be an issue not of age but of social justice. "I don't think it should ever be put in terms of equity, that there is a choice between the elderly and children," argues Alan Pifer, co-editor of Our Aging Society. "There are many other questions." The central issue, these experts agree, is how to protect those in society who are most vulnerable, regardless...
After the Soviet government withdrew the mission's 260 Soviet employees 16 months ago to protest the expulsion of its diplomats from Washington, the State Department hired a private U.S. contractor to fill the vacancies. When the firm had trouble finding Russian-speaking American maintenance workers, it hit upon the idea of sending over budding Kremlinologists...
...group of Hispanic students attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have charged that several white men assaulted them while shouting racial slurs. The alleged attack took place less than 24 hours after students there ended a building takeover staged to protest racism at the school...
...only possible explanation is that the Harvard community considers CIA training so unobjectionable, or at least so comparatively unobjectionable, that it will swallow it without protest...