Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colored many other issues. It took 60 ballots before the convention could agree on how to pick a President. It voted five times to have the President appointed by Congress and voted once against that. It voted repeatedly on whether a President could be impeached and how long his term should be and whether he must be native born...
Chun promised from the outset that he would serve only a single seven-year term as President. He agreed to open negotiations on a series of constitutional and electoral reforms. The parliamentary opposition, led by Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam (see following story), had as its main goal the abolition of South Korea's electoral college, a panel of more than 5,000 elected delegates that chooses the President. Instead, the opposition wanted direct elections for a chief executive. The electoral-college system favors the ruling party, according to its critics. Since an elector is allowed to change...
...House of Representatives voted 415 to 1 last week to require the State Department to "enter into discussions with Japan and Norway regarding compensation for damage to United States national security." The next day members of a Senate subcommittee on international finance raised the possibility of a long-term ban on U.S. imports of Toshiba and Kongsberg products. That would be an especially devastating blow to Toshiba (1986 revenues: $22.8 billion), which exported $1.6 billion in TV sets, VCRs and other goods to the U.S. last year...
...moment the field is deeply divided, with opposing camps interpreting the same evidence in different ways. At the heart of the debate is a question that could affect the psychological well-being of a generation of children and of their guilt-ridden working mothers: What are the long-term risks of day care...
triumphs with a record third term...