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Though polls last week found that 62% of Californians wanted Wilson to sign the bill, he justified his decision on the grounds that it would unleash lawsuits, stifle job creation and unduly burden businesses. Gays were already protected from discrimination, he said, under the privacy clause of the state constitution. Each year the department of fair employment and housing handles more than 10,000 complaints, roughly one-quarter of which end up in court...
...oxbows and tributaries into a stagnant ditch. The disastrous result: nearly 18,200 hectares (45,000 acres) of prime wetlands disappeared. Waterfowl and fish populations plummeted. Last year, in a startling about-face, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District proposed to unleash the Kissimmee by filling in 47 km (29 miles) of canal and removing three flow-control systems. The projected cost: at least $422 million...
Given the ethnic and political hostilities that have long festered in many republics beneath a veil of repression, it was inevitable that the breakup of the Soviet Union would quickly unleash unsavory nationalistic forces. Of the many republic presidents now grappling with restive populations, Gamsakhurdia has been among the quickest to resort to authoritarian tactics. On Sept. 2 his interior-ministry troops fired on anti-Gamsakhurdia protesters. The next week Gamsakhurdia jammed all Soviet and Russian broadcasts to the republic. Last week, as some 30 opposition groups brought more than 20,000 people into the streets, police arrested three opposition...
...would guess that one of the groups very strongly affected would be community health organizations often concerned with treating AIDS patients," says Jed D. Kolko '92, a member of the Boston chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power...
...till the very end of the film, when King Richard pops up, portrayed, in a surprise appearance, by an actor who has launched many a grand movie adventure, will audiences get a glimpse of epic star quality. Then, like the Merry Men, they will unleash a hearty ho-ho. The rest of this Robin Hood merits only...