Word: act
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paging their guardian angel. Greenberg launched his own label, S-Curve, and signed the group as his first act. "I knew that whenever people were exposed to their music, they really liked it," he says. "I was finally in the position to get them the exposure they'd lacked...
More important, there needs to be more student input with respect to academics, administrative decisions and decisions over student life. This communication has been decidedly lacking since the termination of an acting Dean of Students at the College, whose primary responsibility was to act as an advocate for students in the administration. The administration cannot make effective policy decisions on student life if they do not seek and heed student opinion...
...also discussed what she called the "phony balancing" act the media tries to play, particularly in this election's post-debate discussions...
...review of the embargo. The Clinton administration's previous moves toward relaxing the embargo were torpedoed in 1996 by Havana's shooting down of two civilian aircraft flown by anti-Castro exiles who'd dropped pamphlets on the island. That prompted President Clinton to sign the Helms-Burton Act, which made the embargo an act of Congress rather than simply an executive order. But once electoral concerns recede next year - and if Castro avoids any high-profile outrage - the momentum on the issue is likely to swing back to the agriculture and business groups lobbying Capitol Hill...
...more reckless among them plenty of opportunity to subvert it. In 1994, Hebron settler Baruch Goldstein tried to do just that by massacring 29 Palestinians in a religious shrine before being beaten to death, and his action is still celebrated annually by sections of the settler community as an act of martyrdom - even though the Israeli army earlier this year bulldozed a shrine to the killer. The presence of the settlers also gives Palestinian militants an easy target for their own efforts to rekindle violence. Those on either side who may be looking to provoke confrontation don't have...