Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What exactly is date rape? Well, it all depends on whom you ask. According to a Swarthmore College training manual, "acquaintance rape...spans a spectrum of incidents and behaviors ranging from crimes legally defined as rape to verbal harassment and inappropriate innuendo." The new rape does not necessarily involve force or intercourse. The new rape does not even require the victim's verbal or physical resistance...
...reality is that courtship involves a series of verbal and non-verbal games and "No" does not always mean "No." "No" can mean "convince me," "not here," "later," "yes, but I need another drink," "it's that time of the month" or "not in a million years, jerk...
School officials suspended the student for two days for "violating the directions of school administrators," after he ignored warnings to avoid "verbal contact" with Hindy, said Bert Giroux, public relations officer for the school...
...landmark case was brought by shipyard welder Lois Robinson, who accused her employer of ignoring the display of pornographic images and condoning the routine verbal abuse of the six females among the 846 skilled-crafts employees. Robinson and two other women testified that they endured a barrage of comments from their male peers, perhaps the mildest of which was "I'd like to get in bed with that." The offending photos, many of which came from calendars provided by tool-supply companies, included a nude woman bending over with her buttocks and genitals exposed, a nude female torso with USDA...
...partner in such a future order, still seems to favor the feral approach. Knowing the world was looking somewhere else, its army stamped a bloody boot on separatist Lithuania -- a no-nonsense warning that the union of Soviet republics will not be allowed to splinter. President Mikhail Gorbachev's verbal shrug at the violence looked like a casual reactivation of the Brezhnev Doctrine -- in his own country...