Word: provenance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worth of sexual minorities. Harvard University holds that "it is unacceptable to harass or discriminate against students because of sexual orientation." The U.S. military and its campus manifestation, ROTC, contend that gays and lesbians present a security risk and such "sexual deviance" (their vocabulary) is actively discouraged. Individuals proven to have homosexual tendencies are either forced to resign or given medical discharges. Here there is no positive message to gay people, just criminalization at all levels of the institution...
...Bush is a lawyer, so he knows I'm innocent until proven guilty," Wall replies. He is wrong, of course: Bush is not a lawyer, and Wall, although he seems to lack the venality of other players in the Keating affair, is not innocent. Like a number of other legislators and Government officials, Wall paid more attention to cosseting the people he regulated than to safeguarding the depositors and taxpayers who depended on his vigilance. Although Wall says | he now sees Keating's "half-truths and obfuscations," more than a billion was lost while he dithered over closing the vault...
...scientists, while intrigued by the discoveries, preached caution. "Definite conclusions cannot be made," said University of California at Berkeley Professor Joseph Silk. "Although this is a significant breakthrough, we must examine different areas of the universe before we make definite conclusions, or many theories about the universe will be proven wrong prematurely...
...doesn't take a public relations consultant to understand that this is not the way to the heart of the Average Voter. What made Bush endearing to so many voters was his superficial commonness, not a confession of highbrow pursuits. Republicans should have stuck to a proven formula: pork rinds and horseshoes...
...rent control is the best solution that Cambridge has found to the changing economic times. And to a large extent, rent control has proven effective. Cambridge has kept its diversity. Cambridge is not just another suburb of Boston...