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Word: motion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...last week's meeting, Subramanian made a motion to continue business without a quorum, requiring the full council to ratify the evening's decisions at a later date. Tolis said last night that the expulsion of Griffin and Ruiz had made the previous meeting official...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Council Quorumless At Its Last Meeting | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

Robbins is fed up, as well he might be, with the murderous tribalism that so often is the public face of organized religion. He sets in motion an American tel-evangelist whose septic inspiration it is to blow up the Dome of the Rock, the holy Muslim shrine in Jerusalem, thus bringing on World War III, the Second Coming of Christ and Judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faded Jeans SKINNY LEGS AND ALL by Tom Robbins | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...were published. Yes, love letters. But at least some of the language in those letters makes Albert and Mileva sound like research partners: "How happy and proud," he wrote in 1901, "I will be when the two of us together will have brought our work on the relative motion ((relativity)) to a victorious conclusion!" Our work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Einstein In Love | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...fraternity have this entry: "A petition was submitted to have Bro. Quayle censured for his violation of house security. It was moved he be: 1) fined $25, 2) removed from all house offices, 3) warn him that his pin will be lifted if he does it again. A motion was accepted to table the petition's motion." Violating house security means having unauthorized persons in one's room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAN QUAYLE: Late Bloomer | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Despite some efforts at original staging--including an opening in which the actors chant key lines from the play, a fight scene in slow motion and excellent use of lighting--director Leo Cabranes-Grant fails to breathe life into this obscure and unoriginal work...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Unjustified Machiavelli | 4/20/1990 | See Source »

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