Word: informants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent decades has been the ceding of moral concern to right-wingers. Just because one opposes censorship, one need not be seen as agreeing with pornographers. Why should liberals, of all people, oppose Gore when she asks that labels be put on products meant for the young, to inform those entrusted by law with the care of the young? Liberals were the first to promote "healthy" television shows like Sesame Street and The Electric Company. In the 1950s and 1960s they were the leading critics of television, of its mindless violence, of the way it ravaged the attention span needed...
...Fields, the world's second largest gold producer, had gathered last week at the London Zoo for a dinner party to celebrate the company's rebuff in May of a hostile takeover bid by South African-controlled Minorco. Not until the meal was over did ConsGold Chairman Rudolph Agnew inform his troops that the company's board had accepted a $5.5 billion takeover bid from Hanson PLC, the $12.5 billion British group whose holdings include Jacuzzi and Farberware...
...dramatic decisions were written by Justices Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor, who were joined by Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The rulings, together with a decision holding that police need not use the "exact form" of the Miranda warnings to inform arrested suspects of their rights, left little doubt that the court's tough law-and-order majority is firmly entrenched. "The days of criminals' getting off on technicalities are over," declared Daniel Popeo, head of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation, surveying the overall rightward drift of the Rehnquist Court's criminal...
...couldn't possibly be Jewish," he writes. "After all, what Jew in his right mind would come to Beirut?" But members of his faith knew what Friedman was, and some were quick to interpret fact finding as heresy or treason. Why? The author answers, "I had helped to inform the Jews of New York City of the less-than-heroic behavior of the Israeli army in Lebanon, the Sabra and Shatila massacre and other unsettling stories...
...secret study, organized by a San Francisco-based group of AIDS activists called Project Inform, came to light after one of the patients died. He went into a coma, later awoke but then choked while vomiting -- ten days after his first Compound-Q treatment. The FDA has launched an investigation of the study...