Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese saying goes, "It takes more than one cold day for the river to freeze three feet deep." Among other achievements, four decades of communist rule succeeded to a great extent in suppressing the people's initiative and suffocating their independent minds. People felt that they were being maneuvered and betrayed, used and discarded. It was not only the disillusion resulting from economic failures that caused popular frustration, but also the constant spiritual abuse, which reached the most outrageous degree during the notorious Cultural Revolution...
Watson's determined language indicates the scale to which the College was dedicated to ending the parietal problem. Dean John E. Monro, told reporters he was anxious and upset about the parietal rule infractions...
...judge in the Castro case is expected to rule in June on the admissibility of the DNA test as evidence. His decision could have reverberations across the U.S., since evidence from DNA analysis has led to dozens of convictions and helped put at least two men on death row. Now many of these cases may have to be re-examined. Says Randolph Jonakait, a professor at New York Law School: "((The Castro case)) is a bombshell in DNA litigation...
...army turned out to hold the balance of power last week, its influence has fluctuated over the past four decades. For the first three years after the 1949 Communist seizure of the mainland, China for all practical ; purposes was run by the military. After the transition to civilian rule in 1954, the army played a subordinate role, even though it had enough seats on such institutions as the Politburo, the Central Committee and the National People's Congress to guarantee its power base within the party structure...
...would limit the number of subscribers that any system operator could control to 25% of the total U.S. cable audience. The FCC, meanwhile, is preparing a report on the impact of cable deregulation that is due out next year. In a separate action, the agency has begun reviewing a rule that bars broadcast networks from owning cable systems. The networks already have interests in cable channels that range from NBC's month-old Consumer News & Business Channel to the ESPN sports channel, a venture of ABC and RJR Nabisco...