Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explained, would only harden the "misconceptions" that had led North into wrongdoing. In Gesell's sight, North was a "low-ranking subordinate" ordered into illegal activity by "cynical superiors" in the White House's "elite isolation." Said Gesell: "You're not the fall guy for this tragic breach of public trust...
...were losing this many people to a killer virus or to a war, there would be a public outcry. Yet more Americans die of gunshot wounds every two years than have died to date of AIDS. Similarly, guns take more American lives in two years than did the entire Viet Nam War. Only automobile accidents (total deaths per year: 48,700) surpass shootings as the leading cause of injury-induced fatalities. But while auto safety is a continuing public preoccupation, most Americans seem inexplicably indifferent to guns or unwilling to do much about them...
...been more than 20 years since Betty Friedan wrote her watershed work on women and their role in American society. The Feminine Mystique analyzed a series of ailments and injustices against women which raised the nation's public and political consciousness and helped initiate the Woman's Movement...
...three-day limit for examining the contract. We had serious questions about the strength and adequacy of the contract to support union members over the next three years in the face of Boston area costs of living and the threat of a national recession. We were outraged that no public debate was permitted the membership until after the voting on June 29. We wrote a collective statement, "We Can Do Better," presenting our analysis of the contract summary and urging voters to demand at least two more weeks to insure proper time to study and discuss the contract. Barring that...
...both sides will have to fight for public support and votes, and the Court will be able to use the new laws passed by state legislatures to determine what alternatives are acceptable and workable...