Word: center
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...most Haitians remain optimistic. Says Jean-Claude Bajeux, a professor of theology and the head of Haiti's Ecumenical Human Rights Center: "He knows he alone can't change the country, and we can't ask him to make the changes with a magical wand." If the people remember that, then not even the army can stop Aristide's avalanche...
Worst Screening Policy Texas' McAllen Medical Center, which sits in a crossing zone heavily trafficked by aliens, outfitted security guards in olive-colored togs that bear a strong resemblance to the uniforms of U.S. Border Patrol agents. Legal-aid lawyers charge that the dress code scared off poor Hispanics in need of health care...
Most Disappointing Peek Through a Looking Glass If you get the wrong prescription at the local vision center, you can just go back and have it changed. Not so for NASA, whose incorrect prescription is spinning around the earth in the Hubble Space Telescope. Because a mirror was ground to the wrong shape, the space agency was saddled with a $1.5 billion instrument that performs far below expectations...
During his nearly six years in power, Gorbachev has zigzagged repeatedly / between right and left, trying to stay in command of a center that he kept moving slowly leftward, toward greater democracy. At the same time he was steadily expanding his own powers, at least on paper, but implicitly pledging to use those powers to force reform on a backward bureaucracy...
George Bush sits in the soft light of the Oval Office, tilted back in his chair, brow knitted, rimless glasses in his restless hands, then on his nose, then off again. He suddenly swivels, points a long forefinger at a stack of papers in the center of his neat desk. It is Amnesty International's report on Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait. He's just been asked about compromising with Saddam Hussein...