Word: upon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also suffering relentless traffic tie-ups on its narrow streets. In the past decade, the number of registered vehicles in Tokyo has jumped 49%, to 5.2 million, but roads have been expanded only about 4%. Everyday traffic is called tsukin jigoku, or commuting hell. Even so, most Japanese look upon the crowding as a traditional problem that poses no grave threat to their country's productivity...
...usual communique from the capitals but in a Doonesbury cartoon. A rethinking of the cold war is taking place at higher levels too. When a senior Democratic Senator noted in conversation that the cold war might indeed have ended, he was saying no more than Ronald Reagan said upon his return from the Moscow summit when he talked of the end of the postwar era. Since postwar has always meant cold war, the President was signaling the advent of some historic change...
...vigorously pro-British Protestant politicians of Northern Ireland are not satisfied with such limited steps. They called upon Thatcher to reinstate the practice of interning suspected I.R.A. terrorists in prison camps without trial. Former Prime Minister Edward Heath urged Thatcher to reject internment, however, contending that it proved disastrous after the policy was introduced in 1971. Not only was Britain widely denounced for violating human rights, but the internment policy triggered a bloody I.R.A. bombing campaign. Predicts former Northern Ireland Secretary Lord Whitelaw, who abandoned the practice in 1975: "Such a move would inevitably result in violence on a truly...
Andover stood grimly in loco parentis during Bush's time there. In fact, it was even less yielding than his parents in insistence upon duty. Founded on Andover Hill during the American Revolution, the Phillips Academy had its seal designed by Paul Revere. Its self-importance comes across nicely in an editorial written during Bush's senior year (1942), when the country was at war. "President Roosevelt's speech to the nation last night was not, by any means, directed solely at Andover, but it cannot be denied that many of the things that he said are of utmost importance...
...place of women. While the Episcopal Church in the U.S. and Anglicans in Canada and New Zealand have ordained 1,257 women priests since the 1970s, much of Anglicanism is not ready for that step and refuses to recognize the ordained women. Such an encroachment of women's lib upon church doctrine is positively "satanic," declared a bishop from Melanesia, where women do not even dine with...