Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Even for the men in stripes, the Harvard-Yale contest is something special, said referee Ray Renart...
Just as the crackdown was reaching its peak last week, Amnesty International made public another indictment of the army's brutal rule. In a 72-page special report, the London-based human-rights organization accused Burma's junta of "silencing the democratic movement" with systematic terror and torture...
When Japanese professor Sadako Ogata arrived in Burma last week as a special envoy of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Saw Maung expressed his contempt for the very notion. "I will not give the kind of rights demanded by the Voice of America," he said in a speech. "I will not give the students the right to stage demonstrations. I won't let the people emulate the incidents in Eastern Europe...
They not only snubbed Big Green, the most sweeping attack on environmental problems ever put before voters, but they also turned back a flurry of special interest-backed proposals that would have negated Big Green's impact had it passed. In the blur of clashing TV commercials, citizens turned negative, killing everything from a nickel-a-drink surtax on alcoholic beverages to a sales tax to fund antidrug measures...
...from their responsibility for such steps, but sitting Governors cannot. As chief executives, they directly bear the blame for policies that affect the voters. That wrath accounts for the decisions by Connecticut's William O'Neill and Massachusetts' Michael Dukakis not to seek another term after imposing tax increases. Special-interest money also plays a smaller role in state races -- which means that voters can more easily make themselves heard...