Word: reines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maneuvering room is shrinking. The allies are determined now to rein him in lest the U.N. lose credibility and Saddam be tempted by further adventures. They plan to insist that Americans serve on future inspection teams, to spotlight every Iraqi evasion of U.N. resolutions, and to boost aid to Kurds and exiled opponents of Saddam. This week the Security Council is expected to take up a resolution permitting military strikes unless Baghdad stops attacking Shi'ites in the south. The strategy, says a U.S. diplomat, is to "keep Saddam...
...grants. On that standard, four performance artists (Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, John Fleck and Tim Miller) saw their applications for grants rejected and sued the NEA. Last week Judge A. Wallace Tashima struck down the "decency" clause as vague and unconstitutional. The government, he said, does not have "free rein to impose ( whatever content restrictions it chooses" on federally funded art. "The right of artists to challenge conventional wisdom and values is a cornerstone of artistic and academic freedom." The NEA Four, as they have been dubbed, will now try to show that their grants were refused for political...
...Massachusetts first-term Republican Governor William Weld and Democrats in the state legislature are mounting a frontal assault against tenure. Weld wants to allow school principals free rein to make hiring and firing decisions without reference to tenure or job seniority. Weld is also calling for teachers to be recertified every five years after taking competency tests. "This isn't anti-teacher," says Weld. "It's anti-slob teacher...
...stereotype that we build up for ourselves," Delci says. That stereotype is only rein-forced, he says, by the statistics--high school grade point averages and standardized test scores...
...honor or conscience, these people with the morality of animals, who have the effrontery to call for the extermination of the great Russian nation." Patriotic Russians would never let that happen. "No mercy for the German invaders," he said. In Red Square the next day, he again sought to rein in the panic and rally the country. Under a sky ringed with antiaircraft blimps, with artillery fire echoing and under constant threat of Luftwaffe attack, the Soviet leader evoked the glories of Russia's heroic past -- Alexander Nevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin; he also, of course, included Lenin in this pantheon...