Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Anytime rules are established that eliminatethe ascension of Asian-Americans, Hispanics orwomen, then those rules must be re-evaluated,"said Jackson after an address at the Institute ofPolitics. "I cannot accept that a set of rulesthat eliminates minorities is a sound set...
...arms, in turn, clamp down on the wheel rims with rubber pads. The system is simple but doesn't always work, especially with heavy loads or on wet roads. After failed brakes sent him into a tree 20 years ago, William Mathauser, an aeronautical engineer from Anacortes, Wash., set out to improve the system. His hydraulic brake has just gone into full production...
With these signs that the West would not take sides with Lithuania, an antiblockade commission was set up in Vilnius to seek ways around the two- week-old oil-and-gas embargo ordered by Gorbachev. It was also exploring possible food-for-oil swaps. But with the Kremlin in control of the railroads, such schemes were unlikely to break Moscow's squeeze...
...Selleck, lounging on the set of his movie An Innocent Man, talks about why he seeks diversity in his film roles. Loretta Swit fights back tears as she receives a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. L.A. Law's Susan Ruttan reminisces about her days as a secretary. The fluffy show-biz features may be numbingly familiar to anyone who has ever watched Entertainment Tonight or read PEOPLE magazine. But this batch has been packaged in a way that could be groundbreaking. They are part of Persona, the most ambitious new entry in a small but blooming field...
...that the Likud were a bunch of tough-minded businessmen like their uncles who asked for the maximum price and would settle eventually for something less -- but higher than they'd get otherwise." But after years of no progress toward settling the Palestinian question, a more disturbing realization has set in. Says Hertzberg: "Now we are facing the fact that these Likud fellows -- Begin and Shamir and ((Ariel)) Sharon and their likes -- are not reasonable fellows who want the maximum deal, but nationalist ideologues who will pay great, incalculable prices to maintain ideological purity and a continuing war with...