Word: quash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...date, 31 states have taken up the same-sex-marriage issue, with mixed results: five states--Georgia, Kansas, Idaho, South Dakota and Utah--have enacted bans, and 13 others have rejected them. Gay activists are leaning on historical precedent to quash other efforts. "In our lifetime it was illegal to marry someone of the 'wrong race,'" says Evan Wolfson, who directs the Marriage Project for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York. "Our opponents talk about marriage like it's been the same for 6,000 years." Count on the religious right's taking the issue...
...before its upcoming election. The official Xinhua News Agency said China will conduct joint ground, naval and air exercises in the Taiwan Straits starting Monday, even as it declared the end of eight days of missile launches near the island. China has said that the exercises are intended to quash pro-independence sentiment on Taiwan as it prepares for its first direct presidential election on March 23. The new exercises would straddle the election in which pro-independence President Lee Teng-hui is expected to win another term. "China is hoping to derail Lee Teng-hui's election, but they...
...biographies of her--or lessened Liz's outrage over one of them, C. David Heymann's Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor. The book reportedly alleges that she was given 300 prescriptions for pills in 1981 alone. Taylor's lawyer, Neil Papiano, who failed to quash an nbc mini-series based on the book, says a lawsuit is imminent "if in fact the book says what everybody says it says...
...Rabin disclosed today, two alleged accomplices of the suicide bomber, Salah Abdel Rahim Hassan Assawi. Rabin also pledged to amass a 10,000-member security force for Clinton's arrival in Jerusalem Thursday. In Washington, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the Administration is likely to propose legislation to quash U.S. fund raising by Hamas and other terrorist groups...
...same time the government rounds up Islamists wholesale--and often times, worse. A vocal contingent of Algerian officials who have been dubbed 'Eradicators' still feel the best way to resolve the crisis is to quash any Islamist opposition mercilessly...