Word: third
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opponents of 1-2-3 also received a boost this summer when the state Department of Revenue ruled that the third part of the referendum--which establishes an affordable housing trust funded by the increased tax revenue generated by condominium conversion--could not be implemented...
...Meyer insists that there is nothing wrong with the intent of the third point in its original form, even if it is unworkable...
...time," when ideological struggles that called for "daring, courage, imagination" will be replaced by the "endless solving of technical problems." He worries about the cultural banality that pervades liberal societies obsessed with consumerism, and notes that nationalism and religious fundamentalism continue to appeal to many Third World peoples. While it is impossible to rule out the emergence of new ideologies, or indeed of entirely new political systems, Fukuyama argues that for the foreseeable future it will become ever more widely perceived that liberal democracy is the most equitable form of government that man has ever devised. Thus the ideal state...
...November 1938, after a Jewish student assassinated the Third Secretary at the German embassy in Paris, the Nazis staged a nationwide pogrom, burning Jewish homes and synagogues and smashing so many windows that the rampage became known as Kristallnacht (death toll: 91). Yet again the Western Allies protested but did nothing. London maintained its strict limits on Jews' going to British-ruled Palestine, and the U.S. resisted any increase in its immigration quotas...
...time the slaughter ended nearly six years later, more than 50 million people, two-thirds of them civilians, had been killed -- shot, drowned, bombed, frozen, starved, gassed. A number of ideas and institutions too had been killed or gravely wounded: the Third Reich, the British Empire, isolationism, appeasement, peace in our time...