Word: banners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Greenpeace protesters forced the cancellation of a test-firing of the Trident 2 missile last July by hanging an antinuclear banner on the communications mast of an American submarine, the Navy vowed that it would never again be similarly embarrassed. Last week, when the U.S.S. Tennessee launched a Trident 50 miles off Cape Canaveral, Fla., the protesters discovered how determined the Navy...
...April 22 date has special meaning for environmentalists: it marks the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day. In that memorable 1970 mobilization, which evolved from an idea by Senator Gaylord Nelson, more than 20 million Americans, many of them students, rallied under the banner of Mother Nature. Their plea for action helped lead to the passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
...been a banner decade for the Winners. They saw their taxes slashed in 1982 and 1986, of course. But that wasn't the best part of it. The best part was that their position as Winners became increasingly stable and hereditary...
...endorsing 100 percent randomization, the staff wraps itself recklessly in the banner of "diversity," carelessly applying a heavy-handed solution. It sacrifices the principle that a free, educated community can and should direct itself toward its own ideals--gradually if need be--for the illusion that tolerance can be manufactured virtually overnight, externally. For the sake of the symbolism of total randomization, it also sweeps aside serious problems with that plan...
...those subject to forced repatriation, the plan will seek to set up a monitoring system to ensure that they are not punished by the Vietnamese government. But that was small comfort for one group of boat people in Hong Kong, who hung from their windows a banner reading, WE WOULD RATHER DIE HERE THAN GO BACK TO VIET...