Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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If Silber won after the club had endorsed Weld,"it would be very bad," Howe said, explaining thata vengeful Silber would be unlikely to help clubmembers further their political careers.
The natural case for taking better care of children would be made on moral grounds alone. A society cannot sacrifice its most vulnerable citizens without eroding its sense of community and making a lie of its principles. But having been left behind by a decade of political shortcuts, child advocates...
Since the 1987 Vatican-inspired ouster of the Rev. Charles Curran from the theology faculty at Washington's Catholic University of America, educators have nervously waited for the first papal decree setting overall policy in higher education. Would John Paul II, who is determined to restrict dissident theologians, lay the...
Without the luxury of a further provocation from Iraq -- an invasion of Saudi Arabia, the killing of Western hostages or some other horror -- it may fall to the Kuwaiti Emir to request that the United Nations act militarily. The collective-security provisions embodied in the U.N. Charter's Article 51...
Earthquakes frequently occur along the boundaries of continental plates, huge sections of the earth's crust that "float" on a mass of superheated rock. California's San Andreas Fault, for instance, marks the dividing line between the North American and Pacific plates, which are slowly slipping past each other. But...