Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rome, and the youngest daughter. Agnese. 26. a university student, lived with their parents in a comfortable duplex on Rome's suburban Via del Forte Trionfale. The second daughter, Anna Giordano, 29. a pediatrician reputedly as meditative and complex as her father, came home again to await word. Anna, although seven months pregnant, at one point evaded reporters, walked a quarter of a mile to a bus stop, then rode for three miles to retrieve from a telephone booth Moro's final letter to his family. The oldest daughter, Maria Fida Bonini, 32. a newspaper reporter (against...
Saudi Arabia is a feudal monarchy, but at least one institution of the country gives it the flavor of a desert democracy. That is the majlis (Arabic for a "sitting," although the word can also mean "council," or even "parliament"). According to Arab custom, reinforced by a 1952 decree of King Abdul Aziz, every subject has the right of access to his ruler, whether the ruler is a tribal sheik, a governor or the monarch himself, to present petitions of complaint or pleas for help. Even the poorest Saudi can approach his sovereign to plead a cause; functionaries...
Among CIA staffers it was known as IA-FEATURE; the letters IA being the agency's designation for the target country, Angola, and FEATURE the code word for a special covert operation. When the IAFEATURE task force was assembled in late summer 1975, on the eve of Angola's independence from Portugal, it was handed a mission nearly impossible: to help two Angolan leaders who would presumably remain friendly to the West when the big, troubled former colony went off on its own. The IAFEATURE directors, who worked out of a "vaulted" (super-secure) office...
...Freshperson Entertainment Committee. This proved to be a good launching pad toward a career in organized activity. By sophomore year I was splitting time between the Diet Committee and SO. (Students of Oppression). Politics had never been my beat though, until recently. I was looking up the word 'aperture' in the dictionary to explain a joke I had just told when I came upon the word 'apartheid.' I began thinking of all the possibilities for new activism around campus. Everyone was remarking how there was something in the air these days, as if the dictates of some cycle were swinging...
Eklund dislikes such terms as "quotas" and "reverse discrimination." Instead, he speaks of "goals" and "accelerated development". He sets the the hiring and promotion goals and passes the word down from the top that managers had better mee them, "because it's part of their own performance evaluation...