Word: ruses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Should a woman lie to obtain an abortion? Norma McCorvey thought so when she cried rape 20 years ago. The ruse failed and she was forced to have the baby, but McCorvey became "Jane Roe," the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision guaranteeing reproductive freedom. Today, with the right to choose protected, the equal exercise of that right is in jeopardy, and important abortion proponents are urging women to follow McCorvey's example -- a strategy the Clinton Administration may eventually endorse, if only implicitly...
...stiff-backed and hollow-cheeked) is a patent attorney living comfortably in Los Angeles with his wife (Dana Delany) and two kids. His life starts taking strange turns when an ex-girlfriend (Kim Cattrall) seeks his help in locating her missing son. The mission turns out to be a ruse to lead Harry to Senator Tony Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) -- presidential aspirant, television entrepreneur and guru of a political-religious movement known as New Realism. Kreutzer's neofascist aspirations have something to do with hallucinogenic drugs, new technology that enables people to interact with holograms, and a battle between underground political...
...administration's ruse backfired. The air drops simultaneously highlighted the "need for action" in the Balkans and the foreign fumblings of our novice Commander in Chief. The result was a new round of calls for more, more, more. Hoping to placate the hawks, Clinton has only strengthened them...
...Koresh were seized alone outside -- cult members would opt for suicide, taking the children with them. And almost all showdowns with determined and fanatical groups have led to casualties, he insisted, no matter how they were handled. "We've gone about them in a number of different ways -- ruse, ambush, siege and talk," said Killorin. "In almost every one we lose law-enforcement officers...
...diplomatic equivalent of a fragmentation grenade: a blistering anti-Western philippic right out of the cold war. After giving delegates 30 minutes to digest demands that the West immediately end U.N. sanctions in Serbia and get out of the Baltics, Kozyrev returned to explain that the speech was a ruse. His intended message: Don't take Russian democracy for granted...