Word: status
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other factors, such as academic performance, concentration choice or economic status, lead others to go further...
Walking home alone, however, is still a fearful thing, women undergraduates say. A year after the rape, security activism has still not--and possibly can never--undo the lessons of women's precarious status in a world of violence...
...Congress of People's Deputies began its winter session in the Kremlin, hundreds of parliamentarians supported debate on altering the party's legal status, indicating the idea is gaining popularity as reforms shake the Soviet Baltic and Eastern Europe...
...defined this group, the "Zealots," as those Jews who support Israel merely because it is a Jewish state, and for whom Israel's status as a democracy is ancillary. Because the majority of American supporters of Israel--myself included--do not share this unqualified support for Israel, the Zealots are forced into intellectual dishonesty when Israel commits acts unbefitting a democracy...
...bipartisan praise for coming to the rescue of democracy. Said U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell: "The President's decision was an appropriate and prudent one under the circumstances." But Aquino may be haunted by her decision for the rest of her political life. Alluding to the Philippines' former status as a U.S. possession, Max Soliven, a columnist for the pro-Aquino Philippine Star, wrote last week: "When a government cannot overcome a rebellion without 'outside' help, I hope that this does not make it a colony, a satrapy, or a banana republic, all over again...