Word: upon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee charged the law school administration with violating the rules of its placement office, which bar employers who discriminate "in any form based upon sexual orientation...
Contrary to Kissinger's pragmatic approach, I think the current Administration's consideration of human rights as a foreign policy is a growing force. Our degree of support for a particular government depends more and more upon its consideration of human rights rather than the type of government...
Jesus preached a radical way of life that cares for the poor and oppressed, and he accepted the suffering visited upon him by those who could not bear his message. It takes far more courage to love people as Jesus did than to run the quasireligious money mill that Falwell does...
...during that meeting, reports TIME Washington Correspondent William Blaylock, that Volcker decided nothing short of decisive action would do: "Upon Volcker's return to Washington, following a brief appearance at an International Monetary Fund conference in Belgrade, he immediately instructed his staff to draw up a list of options open to the Fed. The short-term goal would be to prevent a further dollar slide abroad, but long term the objective would be to puncture the inflation psychology of the nation as a whole. As many as 20 staffers were ultimately involved in the brain-storming sessions, and economists from...
...same crime whose name was created in 1944 to distinguish their suffering from simple murder. The Jewish state that rose in 1948, did so in large measure because genocide was so horrific as to mandate the most comprehensive safeguard that it might happen never again. The genocidal attack upon the Jews of Europe have given Jews and Israel a moral justification for existence so strong that those who would attack the Jews or Israel have had to somehow destroy this special moral basis of the Jewish state. Since the '40s, when the crime of genocide was conceived, those attackers have...