Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interested in turning points in people's lives, moments of crisis," Gilligan said in an interview recently. This turning point comes around the age of puberty when women's perceptions become "split between their experience and what has been socially constructed as reality," she says...
...journalistic horde seems to be split into two camps: those who are covering the trial and those who are covering the "media circus." Those who are covering the trial spend almost all their time watching TV, then rushing out to phones or TV cameras to utter the same phrases as their 200 peers. Those who are covering the media circus spend their time interviewing other journalists: reporters from the Miami Herald grill reporters from France-Soir, while reporters from Italy's La Repubblica patiently answer questions posed by reporters from the Palm Beach Post...
...could order them launched at will. Now that seems like the good old days. The world gradually came to trust whoever ruled in the Kremlin to exercise caution lest a nuclear war annihilate the Soviet Union along with the rest of the planet. But suppose the arsenal was so split up that no one would even know who might be able to order the detonation of how much of it. It could happen soon, and there are no precedents for dealing with that prospect; never before has a nuclear superpower disintegrated...
...full-voice. A whole clause of the Bill of Rights had been abolished, critics charged, and the whole concept of religious freedom was now imperiled. "On the really small and odd religious groups," said the University of Texas' Laycock, "it's just open season." The court itself was deeply split. In a spirited dissent, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the majority's stance "is incompatible with our nation's fundamental commitment to individual religious liberty." As a result of the uproar, Congress is considering a law to restore the compelling-interest test...
There is no predicting which way this court will go in a case like Lee v. Weisman. The basic split is not only between those who want to accommodate religion and government and those who want to keep the two separate. There is also a split on the court between those who defer to the government and those who continue to emphasize individual liberty...