Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wolf, who is currently serving her third term on the council, says that she presented the order as a means of counteracting the effects of the Webster decision...
Bell, a self-described liberal progressive, adds, "I would say 98 percent of the people who ask me are pleased with my position, which is that I believe that a woman should have every right to exercise control over her reproductive rights regardless of term of pregnancy, race...
...stiff prison term once again drew attention to the glaring inequalities that often characterize sentencing decisions in the U.S. Despite efforts at reform, much of the nation's criminal sentencing system is still based on an idiosyncratic set of decisions made by crime-busting legislatures and individual trial judges. New York State law, for example, sets extremely broad parameters for various crimes -- one to 25 years for a bank robbery, 1 1/2 to 15 years for first-degree assault -- but leaves it to the discretion of each judge to fix the actual sentence. The theory behind this system is that...
...televangelist draws a stiff 45-year prison term, while the average American murderer gets only 20 years. Is the U.S. sentencing system fair or glaringly unequal...
...affairs are run by "resistance councils." Last February voters were permitted to cast ballots for added seats to the National Resistance Council, Uganda's renamed parliament. But Museveni's National Resistance Movement is the only legal political organization, and the unelected President last week had the N.R.C. extend his term of office five years...