Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first act, the tension between director Lloyd Dallas (Daniel Zelman) and his actors keeps the audience's interest. Dallas desperately wants to run through the dress rehearsal in order to have a good opening night, but the actors keep pausing to question the motivations of their characters. Zelman commands to them with a perfect balance of sarcasm and subtle condescension...
Even if many Republicans are professing that abortion isn't a partisan question, the issue was their bane this fall. Several anti-abortion Republican candidates were caught unawares by the shift in public opinion, and they could only clumsily retract their former positions. Their inconsistency may have cost them the election...
...central issue regarding the forum on Israeli-South African ties is not the question of academic freedom, however compelling those theoretical arguments may be. The critical problem is that academic and media equations of Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa, have become not only acceptable, but even quite fashionable. When in 1975, despite Western condemnation, the UN General Assembly declared Zionism "a form of racism and of racial discrimination," through an Arab State, Third World, and Soviet bloc majority coalition, Israel's very existence became a crime against international law, while ethical notables such as Libya, Iraq...
...question is, are you [the new government] really different from the others?" one speaker said at the rally...
...tritium in question followed a circuitous route that began at the Savannah River weapons plant. The vast majority of the plant's tritium output ; was purified and stored for use in nuclear warheads. But some 300 grams (10.5 oz.) a year was sent to Oak Ridge, where it was packaged in uranium sponge and sold for commercial use -- primarily as a radioactive marker in biological research or as a source of light in everything from airport runways to luminous watch dials. The apparent losses were discovered when customers complained of discrepancies between the amount of tritium ostensibly exported...