Word: remaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tuesday, the Senate passed 97-0 an amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act, sponsored by Mitchell and Senate Minority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kansas), which would waive the two-year residency requirement and allow students to remain as legal nonimmigrants in the U.S. until June, 1992. A similar measure, sponsored by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is currently before the House...
...people sampled in a Los Angeles Times poll after the decision agreed with the Court while 40 percent disagreed with it. In the same poll, 40 percent of people felt their state legislatures should tighten regulations on abortion while another 40 percent felt that their state laws should remain the same...
Public mores may have changed over the past three decades, but the press still finds itself trapped by the rituals that govern its coverage of scabrous gossip. Today the journalistic rules of righteous rumormongering have been liberalized, even though the results in the form of tarnished reputations often remain all too familiar. Leading newspapers and the television networks are less likely to permit the wire services to do their dirty work for them. Instead, the new, more permissive approach allows them to write and broadcast artfully crafted stories about the rumors themselves, thereby spreading calumny while piously decrying...
...diversity and for protecting the civil rights of anyone who is perceived as 'different.' " Toby Marotta, a sociologist in San Francisco, finds the book's thesis the same "homophile argument used before Stonewall and abandoned afterward." Some gays believe, too, that the conservative approach may actually encourage homosexuals to remain invisible; the better gays succeed in blending in, they suggest, the easier and more tempting it may be to hide their sexuality...
...merely helped his fellow Marine let the KGB into the embassy. Recalls a security officer: "Bracy thought he was a hero that day. It was all helping prosecute this Marine ((Lonetree)) who had turned bad." Since there is no way to look into Bracy's heart, his statement will remain an imponderable loose end in the Moscow embassy case...