Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...done a lot of talking, but aside from the environmental ordinances nothing has changed except that the meetings are longer and there are more of them," says Independent Councillor William H. Walsh. "This council has set a record for the most meetings, not the most productivity...
...high -- a crack pipe that costs 3 cents to produce can retail for $8 -- and the risks of jail are low. Though a 1986 federal statute makes it a felony to import, export or conduct interstate trade in paraphernalia, no federal law bans its manufacture. Moreover, while all states except Alaska have passed laws to control the sale of paraphernalia, the crime is typically a loosely enforced misdemeanor. "These guys simply do not face an equivalent risk for the harm that they are producing," says Richard Wintory, director of the National Drug Prosecution Center...
...shawls and yarmulkes, and the removal of stereotypes of the Jews as avaricious and mercenary. "They have made very significant improvements," says Swidler, who has been working with the text commission for twelve years. "There are very few things remaining we would see as problems, and they are minor, except for the blood curse...
...indicated that because too many Americans see Gorbachev as the bully of the Baltics, it might be difficult to lift trade restrictions against the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, Gorbachev's Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, met with his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, in Geneva. It was an upbeat meeting except on what may be the single most neuralgic point for Soviet foreign policy: Genscher reiterated that a unified Germany will be a member of NATO...
Zhou made his way to the coastal city of Yantai, where he stayed at a Stone guesthouse for three weeks before police caught him. He was detained in a hostel in the Beijing area, where, except for a three-day period of solitary confinement, he was treated relatively well. Zhou was never formally charged or tried. In December he was told he would be released shortly, but it was another five months before he, along with 210 others, gained his freedom...