Word: basing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...announcing that he was setting aside 27% of government jobs for Indians who belong to 3,000 designated "backward castes." The Prime Minister took the initiative to enlarge his support among lower-caste voters and cut into the B.J.P.'s and the opposition Congress (I) Party's power base. But it had the unanticipated effect of arousing ancient animosities among caste groups in the north and stirring violent protests, including self-immolations, by upper-caste students who felt they were being squeezed out of an already tight job market...
...sends a video of children ripping into Christmas toys or volunteers unloading truckloads of food for hurricane victims in South Carolina. Last year the Lifers' Group helped a local church organization feed more than 500 people at Thanksgiving; they hope to double that number this year. Their computerized data base has about 900 potential donors (half of them lawyers) of food, clothing, toys and money. In fact, the 15-year-old group is so formalized that it has tax-exempt status and a 15-page booklet to explain the group's goals to new members...
...nevertheless seemed to govern Pakistan as she would have a feudal kingdom. Her government appeared to operate largely by petition; she bartered Cabinet seats for increased support in Parliament, and she was unwilling to allow the army, which she distrusted, to interfere in the violent politics of her power base in the province of Sind. While a cordon sanitaire of friends and relatives kept her insulated from critics, she made sure her public appearances received immense media coverage. Like Aquino's, Bhutto's reputation as restorer of democracy and avenger of her father could not withstand her government's weakness...
...deeper change, according to Penelope Leach, author of the popular parenting manual Your Baby and Child, stems from the Industrial Revolution, which forced a split between the home and the workplace. "Home and its surrounding community used to be everybody's operating base, with work and play and family pretty much intermixed," she says. "Now work has moved into geographically separate production centers and takes the form of specialized jobs that cannot be shared, swapped or carried on with a baby strapped to your back." Home has been left an impoverished place, little more than a dormitory, a spot...
...participate in the talks. The party's current preoccupation, in fact, is an internal debate over whether to launch a civil- disobedience campaign against the government. Conservative pressure won't derail the reform process, but it could force De Klerk to act even more cautiously to preserve his white base of support...