Word: stirringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that premise, mediation programs designed to take CHINS cases out of Juvenile Court are springing up throughout the United States. Just as the decriminalization movement made sweeping gains during the early 1970's so the mediation alternative currently is causing a stir in legal and judicial circles...
...people who will be addressing the audience, Judith Tucker is one, Ms. Tucker, who is a professor at Simmons College, recently caused something of a stir at her school when she gave a presentation on Lebanon. Invited to give a brief talk on the Lebanese situation, she instead gave a half hour showing of war slides which she followed up with an address in which she described the PLO as "a humanitarian organization" working to better the lives of the Lebanese people...
...result successfully steers clear of a cliche ridden things-are-bad philosophy. Avoiding the didacticism of hammering home a single point--the misery of the downtrodden--Terkel instead has culled enough of a range of happiness and unhappiness from his interviewees to stir the emotions without demanding any clear reaction. For every openly frustrated speech--like the steelworker (Michael Rapposelli) who wants desperately to get out of work and "go tell some guy fuck you," because he can't tell his boss--there is a dreamer like Anthony Calnek's stonemason, who notices the crooked bricks in every house...
...past several weeks, the Ayatullah has been trying to stir up resentment against the government of Saudi Arabia by including fundamentalist Shi'ite zealots among the Muslims making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Speaking for many gulf Arabs, Bahrain's Prime Minister Khalifa says: "The continual upheaval in Iran is a great danger. But subversion is the greatest threat of all. I have no doubt that the U.S. appreciates the scope of this threat...
...recent years, the plight of orphan-disease victims has begun to capture national attention and stir concern. Beginning in 1980, several dramatic hearings of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment raised awareness of the issue with testimony from Marjorie Guthrie, the singer's widow, Actor Jack Klugman, whose TV show Quincy devoted an episode to Tourette's syndrome, and researchers like Van Woert. A study by the committee identified 134 drugs to treat orphan diseases, but found that only 58 were on the market or even under investigation by drug manufacturers. Furthermore, more than two-thirds...