Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Other speakers included author Grace Paley; Farrah Zand, an Iranian student; and Liz Bentley, a high school student...
Within 24 hours of his own appointment by the junta, the new Prime Minister, Bülent Ulusu, 57, a retired admiral, presented a "nonpolitical," 27-member cabinet that gave the seven key ministries to retired army officers. However, Economist Turgut Ozal, author of an austerity program that deposed Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel had pushed through parliament earlier this year, was named Deputy Prime Minister. It was a clear sign that the military intends to give the ailing Turkish economy top priority...
...Author George Plimpton, New York City's fireworks marshal, will narrate the fireworks presentation...
Longfellow, by now and old man, was not scheduled to speak. But when the governor sent word at the last minute that he could not attend, the author of "The Village Blacksmith" agreed to say a few words. "I feel very much as I suppose some of you do when you are suddenly called upon in your classroom," he told them. After thanking the schoolchildren for the gift to hin of a rocking chair, Longfellow concluded with a statement that can only be described as philosophical: "I am afraid that 50 years hence, this day and all that belongs...
...genuine social democrat and a favorite of the left, Rifkin backs himself into a corner with his entropic world view. Why should we accept his weltanschaung instead of Plato's? What do we have to gain by accepting Rifkin's view when, as he says, progress is impossible? The author's blend of cold reality and passionate rhetoric does not sway us. Instead, he leaves us hanging, frustrated by unfulfilled expectations. Although Entropy tries to respond to our daily malaise with a forceful theory, it leaves us even more despondent...