Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Checkbook administration, however, has torn apart the subsistence economy of the territory and contributed to an environment of distorted development and social despair. Indeed, most of the same problems afflict the South Pacific islands held by the U.S. independent of any U.N. sanction. These include...
...permissiveness spread, Westerners felt less need to travel to India to shed inhibitions with spiritual sanction. So the swami of sex began tailoring his program to the psychospiritual circuit, catering to graduates of the "human potential" movement who felt that the movement's potential-and their own-had reached a dead end. Refugee experts from encounter groups, Rolfing massage and other please-touch techniques began making the pilgrimage and offering Rajneesh their talents. Since 1974, when the lushly gardened Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Ashram opened in the sedate city of Poona, more than 50,000 seekers have gone, mostly from...
...talking to one another or sitting together. The only opportunity to find a mate is in the fields. When a likely spouse appears, an elderly emissary inquires about his or her availability; if both the boy and the girl are willing, the cooperative's controller is asked to sanction marriage. Says Bousa Voen, 22, a refugee at Surin, in broken but poignant English: "I never talked to my husband before we marry. He just know I beautiful and want to make love...
...fuel, though it did not own the uranium; for a time it scrambled to buy yellowcake wherever possible, and its purchases helped to lift the price. Gulf Chairman Jerry McAfee says sarcastically: "The company sold short some 60 million pounds of uranium and now is attempting to win court sanction for breaking its commitments. I think they are entitled to the same right that any commodity speculator enjoys when he has badly misjudged the market"-presumably meaning the right to go broke...
...borrow on the equity in a home and live, in it at the same time, with the loans to be repaid by their estates when they die. Whether such mortgages are permitted now is a tangled question of federal and state regulation; in any event, giving them specific legislative sanction in California would advance the idea...