Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immoral system whose breakdown was inevitable. But the trade and financial sanctions imposed by the U.S., the European Community, the Commonwealth and other groups of nations hammered home to South African whites, as probably nothing else could have, the fact that their country had become a global outlaw, judged unfit for membership in the world community of nations. Their dismay at that knowledge accelerated the process of dismantling apartheid at least a bit, and perhaps with somewhat less violence than would have been the case without sanctions. Now that the process seems irreversible, sanctions have done their...
...which had been scheduled to augment a regular Army division. Although the Pentagon had given all the units a C-2 rating, its second highest standard of battle readiness, the three brigades -- totaling 15,000, one-fourth of the Army Guard members summoned to active duty -- were declared unfit for combat by regular Army commanders and could not be sent to the gulf...
Things do not always work out as we plan, however. On his first night back on campus, Barringer went out drinking with some friends and ended up in a lot of trouble. Deemed unfit to represent the University, he was placed on probation for a year. He would not step on the ice for Harvard during the 1989-90 season...
...would usually be busy cultivating the land, but their fields are flooded with salt water. The 10-ft. mud wall that normally keeps out the sea was washed away in the storm. Until the dike is rebuilt, the tides will bring more salinity to the soil, eventually making it unfit for farming and threatening Ujantia's existence...
...previous children. But this time she entered a program at Daytop Village designed for mothers. To her amazement, she found that within a month she began to connect with other women in the program and to care about getting clean. "The fact that we are viewed as unfit mothers by society is one of the things that bonds us together," she says...