Word: unleash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Already the mounting death toll, now estimated at 1,000, has confirmed the fear that the assassination would unleash a new round of ethnic violence. In a land where communal ties run deep, the pitting of one group against another can be potentially explosive "Communal madness," Gandhi's son and successor Rajiv correctly warns, "will destroy...
Porn is the theory; rape is the practice." This is the rallying cry of a new breed of activists convinced of a causal link between sexual violence in movies and the physical violence that men too often unleash on women. Aroused or desensitized by images of erotic domination, the argument goes, men may follow the examples set onscreen. Thus movies containing scenes of sexual violence are criminal violations-if not of the obscenity statutes, then of women's civil rights. And this applies to slasher movies like Friday the 13th and art-house hits like Lina Wertmuller...
...North, as the Unionists want, but incorporate Nationalist representation in chairmanships and local councils. In return, construct a viable and comprehensive structure of cooperation between the security forces of the Republic and Britain, to defeat terrorism within the present constitutional framework. Having no constitutional change on the agenda would unleash a new opportunity for a real change in the area that really matters whether ordinary people can live their everyday lives in peace and security. By such an action, we would already begin to unravel the net of fear and anxiety on which the murderers thrive...
...bill would unleash "forces likely to inflict critical damage on public education," maintained Democratic Representative Don Edwards of California. Fellow Democrat Bob Edgar of Pennsylvania, a United Methodist minister, urged that religious education be kept out of schools. Overriding such objections, the House last week passed, 337 to 77, a measure guaranteeing students the right to organize voluntary religious gatherings in public high schools, outside class hours, on the same basis as nonreligious groups...
...Olympic boycott in 1980, now that it's been thrown back in our face," coyly wonders Campaign Manager Oliver Henkel. Says another Hart aide: "I hope Mondale says again that he privately led the fight against it, especially since it was his idea." While aides unleash their volleys, Hart himself will press his "campaign of new ideas...