Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter, printed on stationery from the office of Arizona Governor Evan Mecham, could not have been more plaintive. Unless donors sent him $1.2 million within 45 days, Mecham wrote, he might be kicked out of office. Mailed to 25,000 conservatives across the country, the letter invited recipients to move to Arizona and help Mecham avoid "being crushed by the millions of dollars the militant liberals and the homosexual lobby plan to spend against...
Some observers believe the sexual revolution has directly contributed to women's restlessness and discontent. The liberated woman's adoption of freer sexual attitudes can get in the way of emotional intimacy, suggests Connaught Marshner, executive editor of the Family Protection Report newsletter in Washington. "Unless the woman basically coaches the man in how to achieve intimacy, he won't," says Marshner. "He has to be motivated and he has to be taught. If a man knows he can get you to go to bed with him, he's not going to bother to be interested in your personality...
...definition of who is a Jew. The issue is vital because Jews throughout the world have an automatic right to become Israeli citizens under the Law of Return. While children born of Jewish mothers are automatically Jewish, the ultras argue that converts to Judaism should not be considered Jews unless they were converted according to the halakhah -- effectively excluding those proselytized by Reform or Conservative rabbis...
Supervisors who are opposed to the union saidthey do not share their position with theiremployees unless they are asked. "We never go outof our way to sell our point of view toemployees," said a supervisor of 55 support staffmembers in Holyoke Center, who asked not to benamed
Contreras said that one of Hondouras's mostsignificant problems is its large number ofrefugees. More than 200,000 citizens of otherCentral American nations are living in Hondourastoday, Contreras said, and peace will not beobtained unless these refugees are ultimately ableto return to their homelands...