Word: public
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memo, sent by Harvard's Committee on Central America (COCA) to 900 male undergraduates, was cleverly designed to play upon the public outrage generated by the brutal murders of six Jesuit priests last week by right-wing death squads in El Salvador...
Trnski's speech was the first harsh public criticism of Zhivkov, 78, who gained power shortly after Josef Stalin's death with the aid of the Soviet dictator's supporters, and ran the country in a rigid, Stalinist fashion. The attack also came during the first-ever live television broadcast of a Bulgarian Parliament session...
...dangerous proportions. For example, we have pushed the fossil fuel problem under the carpet. Forgetting this once-trendy environmental issue, we have begun buying larger, less gas-efficient cars again. Similarly, Americans seem to be all too quick to forget about conserving water until shortages appear. Furthermore, the general public seemed ambivalent about the depletion of the ozone layer until the media sounded a general alarm. As soon as it was popular and politically expedient, thousands chose to "get involved...
...Public Service...
Statistics show that a significant number of Harvard Law graduates who do enter private law directly become disenchanted with the corporate world and leave it for public-service law after five years...