Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the past 50 years, with all its contradictions, betrayals and unburied ghosts. Confucian thought has always seen the family as a model of the state. Obedience to the father was a model for loyalty to the Emperor. In his quest to create a new China, Mao tried to destroy the family: children informed on parents, ancestral graves were desecrated, meals were eaten in work groups, not at home. But the family survived. As China puts itself together after the ravages of Maoism, the family is one of the few institutions that people believe...
...take away a woman?s right to choose." The rhetoric on the flip side of the issue is no less passionate. Rep. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained to CNN, "This bill doesn?t erode a woman?s right to choose; it puts limits on criminals? rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman...
...appears that now is a particularly good time for those who feel any weapon with such potential to destroy truly innocent civilians and peacekeepers should be banned. The land mine campaign has opened the world's eyes to the long-term ravages of war and so these NATO tools must also come under scrutiny...
...Bill of Rights. These groups would be unable to transmit their religious message with public funds--meaning that something as simple as a blessing before meals could turn into an ugly lawsuit. Widespread federal involvement in religious charities could gut the charities of all religious meaning and destroy the original purpose of the programs...
...demands was that Harvard not destroy 182 units of housing in the Medical School area for a new training and research hospital. "[No] homes [are] being torn down to make way for Harvard Medical School expansion," Pusey said in his statement...