Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...palace was rebuilt in 1995 by conscripted laborers monitored by armed soldiers. Every one of the city's 500,000 citizens was conscripted for three days every month, unless he or she paid a fee. Resistors are subject to rape, torture, imprisonment, execution and a host of other abuses which typify the regime's treatment of dissenters...
Within the next five or six years, many of us, if not most, will subject ourselves to an alphabet soup of similar ordeals of widely varying intensity, including the LSAT, the GMAT and the GRE. But as they return from their pilgrimages to test sites at U. Mass-Boston or MIT, most test-taking students refuse to evaluate their performance themselves. As we hail the conquering heroes, they merely say, "It's over...
...kind of hard to have a discussion withsomeone who's just entering the subject area," hesaid...
Plus, there is not even the assurance that IP telephone rates will always stay so low. By being exempt from access fees and other taxes, these IP phone companies are essentially being allowed by the government to steal a slice of the telephone pie without being subject to the same taxes and fees their competitors pay. Beyond giving them a somewhat unfair competitive advantage, this goes against the FCC's long-standing tradition of funding itself and wide-spread telephony access through taxes on long-distance phone service...
...Party, called the agreement "the mother of all treachery." He also told TIME that should President Clinton visit the province to encourage support for the agreement, as has been proposed, "we will not give him a free hand to go around and do whatever he wants. He will be subject to the cut and thrust of the hustings of Northern Ireland political campaigns." Paisley's party is well known for its gangs of bullyboys who play rough during elections. Could Robinson be threatening disruptions? "One thing we will not do is give prior warning of our intentions," he replied...