Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Summers would be a time also to try to perfect one's craft. However, the craft should be one which requires relatively little practice to renew one's skill, since it may come in handy not only before securing an entry-level position in one's hoped-for vocation, but at intervals of possible unemployment and change of jobs...
Amin reminisces about his time as a militia leader, when he was wounded three times. But he quickly drops the subject, turning instead to the future: "Maybe we have to renew our national system to take into account our pluralism. Instead of dividing, it can unite. I am ambitious about this goal. I think that I will be able to find the right formula. This is the raison d'être of Lebanon, isn't it? To create this important laboratory for the region. How can you bring Muslims and Jews together in the Middle East...
...that initiative, Reagan proposed a temporary U.S. military presence in Lebanon, along with contingents from other Western countries, until Lebanon's government managed to establish its authority throughout the ravaged land. That goal is proving more difficult to attain than the Administration had foreseen, as religious factions renew their ancient feuds with growing ferocity...
...pleas of industries that may have been violating EPA regulations. The uproar over EPA prevented the Administration from pushing legislation through Congress that would have softened the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, which have technically expired but remain in effect until Congress acts either to kill or to renew them. Both are now likely to be strengthened...
...public accommodations? Lobbying for the gay rights resolution was Robert Bauman, the ultra-conservative Maryland Congressman who lost his seat in the 1980 election after he was arrested for propositioning a 16-year-old youth. Bauman, who publicly admitted his homosexuality for the first time last week, did not renew his membership in the A.B.A. several years ago because "it was getting too liberal for me." The organization was not yet liberal enough to back gay rights. The delegates defeated the proposal by a surprisingly close tally...