Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...typical advertiser is usually widowed or divorced and seeking a long-term relationship, Mintz says, adding that the average 30-word ad is tailored for a "particular clientele...
...bill: the NRA mandatory sentencing provision "is unnecessary and, as drafted, it weakens and confuses current law." The mandatory sentencing aspects of the bill are far more effective as propaganda than as law enforcement; in 1985, President Reagan signed into law a bill mandating a 5-year prison term for those who possess firearms while committing a crime...
...first of those incidents, 45 students took over the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing Corporation. Later in the term, activists blockaded a South African diplomat inside Lowell House, where he was speaking to a closed meeting of the Conservative Club...
...divestiture movement derives its sense of urgency from the assumption that South Africa is somehow on the brink of major change, that the harms of disinvestment to South African Blacks represent nothing more than short-term sacrifices. But it could take decades for the Blacks majority to take its rightful place in South African political life. The white community possesses not only the sheer strength but the will to keep power; 40 percent of employable Afrikaaners work for the government and thus have a direct stake in upholding apartheid. The South African economy can withstand an economic siege, and plentiful...
Hughes said that the other seven suspended students have decided to take the term off, since six of them will be able to graduate on time anyway. All nine members of the Review will continue to work for the weekly. "This thing has cemented their dedication to the paper," Hughes said...