Word: soled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time to regress to Martin Luther King's ideal. The content of one's character, not the color of one's skin, is the sole decent American criterion...
...tell" policy, according toTIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson. A Navy board in California said Lt. Cmdr. (Select) Zoe Dunning should remain in the service despite the fact that she declared her sexual preference last year. Dunning convinced the board that she fulfilled the sole condition under the policy that allowed her to stay in the Navy: that she didn't engage in lesbian sex. "How she would have proved that is an interesting question," says Thompson. "But it shows that the policy isn't black and white -- there is some gray." The Navy did not comment on the ruling...
...Thomas Lynch of Wilton, Connecticut, were perplexed in November 1990 when their Dutch au pair arrived fearful and miserable. On Day One, Saskia, 21, wept uncontrollably, but lacked enough English to explain why she was upset. On Day Two, Saskia expressed shock that she was expected to provide sole care for the Lynches' two daughters, ages two and four, while the Lynches were at work; she thought she had come to America primarily to travel and learn English. On Day Three, Saskia announced that she wanted to go home -- then stopped speaking English altogether. Baffled, Cathy found an interpreter...
...councillors who voted for the petition said it fails to provide adequate protection for rent-control tenants. But, faced with today's deadline and political necessity, they said it was the city's sole option...
...national referendum on the matter is scheduled; talk shows debate the issue, and Casey Kasem even hosts a "Just say no" TV fund raiser. Meanwhile, the President's sole black adviser (Robert Guillaume) overcomes his don't-rock-the-boat philosophy to rally opposition to the trade. Yet he finds that black activists are divided and posturing -- they greet his pleas for pragmatism with choruses of Amazing Grace. He does better with white business leaders ("What do you think I've been doing on these corporate boards all these years?"), who agree to finance an ad campaign against the deal...