Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pocket, police found a three-page suicide note, in which police said he complained that "feminists have always ruined his life." Born to a French-Canadian mother and an Algerian father who left the family when his son was seven, Lepine studied intermittently at junior colleges and expressed the hope that he would be accepted at the university. Though he had no history of criminal behavior or mental illness, he existed on the margins; a loner who enjoyed war movies, he was unable to sustain relationships with women and claimed to have been turned down by the military for being...
...during the past few years, Swiss secrecy has been weakened by a series of cases involving money laundering. Switzerland is now preparing a new law that will make money laundering a crime punishable by prison terms. Explains Jean-Paul Chapuis, executive director of the Swiss Bankers Association: "Our hope is that the criminals will go to another country...
...loosened to the point of presenting both countries with the prospect of events slipping out of control. Though the revolution in East Berlin continues to outrace changes in Prague, the dynamics of tumult are much the same in both countries. Besieged party leaders grant one desperate concession ) after another, hoping each move will quiet the mounting outcry and preserve some measure of power for themselves. The opposition's success begets bolder demands -- and party leaders capitulate, further diminishing the very authority they hope to maintain...
...organizers of Earth Day 1990 hope it will have a similar galvanizing effect, that it will change individual behavior and launch a decade of environmental activism. This time the event will be international, reflecting the recognition that all the major environmental threats are global in scope. More than 100 countries, including Hungary and Uganda, have started to form committees and plan activities. Says Denis Hayes, a San Francisco lawyer and chairman of Earth Day 1990, an international umbrella organization: "The whole thrust of Earth Day as we go into the 1990s is an environment that is much brighter...
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