Word: turning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legal battle against sex discrimination has often pitted the backers of women's rights against paternalistic rules that protect -- and bar -- women from the workplace. The fight appears to have taken a new turn as a result of a major federal decision from the Chicago-based Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals...
...secretariat defends its cozy relationship with the ivory business. Eugene Lapointe, CITES secretary-general, says inadequate financial support from governments left the group little choice but to turn to the trade for money. CITES, he says, has no enforcement authority and should not be held accountable for policing. That, he says, is the responsibility of the individual nations. As for the amnesty granted the Singapore and Burundi ivory, the secretariat says a 1985 vote by its member nations empowered it to register all stocks...
...vast habitats set aside for animals and cannot understand why scarce financial resources go to protect elephants while people go hungry. To many Africans, the elephant is a five-ton nuisance that can trample a season's maize in seconds. As long as they feel that way, they will turn a blind eye to poaching. Revenues from tourism and safaris have yet to improve the lot of the African people enough to win them over to wildlife management...
...turn this limited success into a trend, the University should step up its efforts to recruit minority graduate students. Neither the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Admissions Office nor the individual departments can do the job alone. Rather, their different structure, resources and capabilities should be used to complement one another...
...Good and Evil" is a curious cut on Rei Momo that imposes tension and humor into a Rumba/Llesa sound. Lamenting that "Good and evil, good and evil/They turned 'em loose, they turned into people," this song combines piano and the bata instrumentation of Milton Cardona, Marc Quinones and Jose Mangual, Jr. to reflect the stresses of opposing positive and negative forces. The ending fades into the distance with a melody pattern not unlike a top 40 love song that takes a sharp turn from the salsa; in the context of all the varieties on the album, however, it is thoroughly...