Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Young Bok, known as "Tiger Choo" to American officers in Seoul, and, curiously, the first South Korean Defense Minister with a knowledge of English good enough for direct communication with U.S. commanders. According to President Choi's earlier promise, the newly installed Cabinet's most important immediate task was supposed to be the preparation of a political breakthrough: the systematic revision of Park's sternly authoritarian 1972 "Yushin" constitution...
Persuading capable lawyers to go along on so lengthy a legal journey-an "exhausting, self-lacerating investment of time and energy," as the A.C.L.U.'S Henry Schwarzschild describes it-is no easy task. "It's so desperate you take whom you can get," explains Morris. Indeed, the shortage of qualified attorneys threatens to overwhelm Morris and others like her because the nation's death row population, now totaling some 570, is climbing by almost 100 people a year.* Eighty percent of the prisoners mark their time in the states of the Old Confederacy; Georgia has the largest...
...team of Texan critics take textbooks to task...
Since there were no takers for the school board's $124.6 million in notes, Hannon asked Mayor Byrne to provide a city guarantee for the school board's financing. The mayor, concerned about the city's own credit rating, stalled and appointed a task force of bankers and lawyers to study the matter. Curious about the unexpected pinch, the Securities and Exchange Commission quietly began an inquiry into possible investor fraud in past sales of school notes...
...hellish. Two men in prison garb stand in front of an electrified fence. Max (Richard Gere) and Horst (David Dukes) must carry heavy rocks from one side of the prison yard to the other, drop them in a pile and then carry them back. This task of inspired idiocy is designed not only to break their bodies but to crush their minds and spirits. Their crime: being homosexuals...