Word: shall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush's staffers with sowing stories about how they had slung the mud. As the rumors about rumors escalated, Bush and Dole agreed in Washington last week to order a return to dignity. According to Bush Aide Lee Atwater, the candidates have decided "to keep the Eleventh Comandment: Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican...
...Rights Amendment. Five years have elapsed since the measure, battered by scare talk of homosexual marriages, unisex bathrooms and female combat duty, went to its death, just three states shy of the 38 needed for ratification. Yet the ERA's 24 key words -- "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex" -- simply refuse to go away. Fifty-one Senators are now cosponsoring an effort to launch the amendment again, and the National Organization for Women has begun a bicentennial drive to revive...
...free both Glass and Osseiran "at all costs." Late in the week he began restricting the movement of Hizballah activists in the Shi'ite suburbs of Beirut in preparation for possible military action. Speaking of the extremists, a commentator on Damascus radio said, "Their strongholds are not impenetrable. They shall be reckoned with...
...Supreme Court has drawn some confusing borders between church and state, basing its decisions on a fervently disputed phrase in the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." As interpreted by the high court, those words forbid incidental aid to parochial schools and religious agencies, posting the Ten Commandments in public classrooms or, in a decision two weeks ago, laws that require teaching "creation science" alongside evolution. Citing the establishment clause, the pro-choice Abortion Rights Mobilization hopes the courts will force the Roman Catholic Church to stop pro-life politicking or lose its tax exemption...
...Fifth Amendment guarantees that private property shall not "be taken for public use, without just compensation." Exactly what those words mandate has been a subject of heated debate and much litigation for almost two centuries. In a controversial decision last week, the U.S. Supreme Court opened a major new chapter in the already bulging lawbooks dealing with confiscation. The ruling is virtually certain to render the field even more treacherously complex and to create pounding headaches for local planning authorities, environmentalists and historical preservationists across the nation...