Word: umbrella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there so many carrots compared to the peas?' " Television weather persons: "You're dying to know if it's hot or cold, and instead they give you percentages. Eighty percent chance of rain, 30% chance of a cloud . . . What, are you going to buy 80% of an umbrella?" Ronald Reagan: "This is the happiest President we ever had, and I found out why he's so happy. He can't believe he got the job! . . . I'm proud of him because, since then, Grenada has never attacked this country." R-rated films: "The truth is that children have no idea...
...United Democract Front (UDF), an umbrella coalition including most anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, refused to participate in the Indaba, just as it refused to participate in elections for the triracial parliament. So did the Azanian People's Organization (APACO), a smaller anti-apartheid group, and the Congressof South African Trad Unions (COSATU), the largestnonracial labor federation. Undoubtedly, theirresponse was colored by dislike for Buthelezi,whose strong-armed followers are notorious forbrutal attacks on Black opponents. (13) The ANC,being illegal under the current regime, was notinvited, but it is as vehemently opposed to theprocess as the UDF, COSATU...
With the countryside in a state of undeclared civil war, an umbrella opposition coalition called the Group of 57 organized numerous national strikes and demonstrations. The aim of the protests, they said, was to dislodge or reform a government that has repeatedly violated Haiti's new constitution. At the height of the protests this summer, the day was rare when the ramshackle boulevards of Port-au-Prince were not blocked by barriers of flaming tires. Each day, as the sun slipped in the sky and the air grew cooler, bands of boys played soccer around the debris. By evening...
Reich, the co-coordinator of the Gay and Lesbian Cooperative, the umbrella organization for such groups as the Yalesbians and the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Unsure meetings, is willing--even eager--to discuss his life as a gay student at Yale...
...recanted some of that position, concluding that "many other forms of discourse, such as moral and scientific debate, are central to democratic government and deserve protection." But in a conversation with Journalist Bill Moyers televised earlier this year, Bork still hesitated to put art firmly beneath the constitutional umbrella. "I think you're getting toward the outer edge there," he told Moyers...