Word: thus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jakes and called a meeting. On Friday, Nov. 24, the session opened in an austere hall in the Stalinist-era Party Political University on the outskirts of Prague. There, Jakes tried one last tactic to save his job: he proposed a new law that would permit freedom of assembly, thus legalizing the demonstrations that had brought Prague and other cities to a standstill...
...achieve an emotional bond -- a standard for hospital melodrama -- but in reveries rather than everyday contact. The patient becomes a stand-in for the nurse's dead mother; the nurse is transformed into the patient's long-lost sister, then an estranged daughter. The little dramas of hospital routine thus become freighted with the burdens of decades. Trivial exchanges achieve the dimensions of catharsis. Puig deftly interweaves other themes, including the oppression of all women under Latin machismo and the extent to which South Americans may still defensively see theirs as a colonial culture...
...starting point is that freedom of movement is a basic human right. Thus there could be no better proof of our sincerity about renewing socialism than by starting with human rights. I considered it a disadvantage that we were signers of the Helsinki Final Act and the Vienna declaration yet we did not abide by certain parts of those agreements. We intend by this action to emphasize the unity between word and deed. Last but not least, let me stress that to open the border does not mean that its existence should be questioned...
...graft related to defense contracts. Soon after, Singh launched a dogged national crusade against corruption. For the elections, he persuaded several of India's opposition groups to quit fighting one another and work together to defeat Congress. As a result, they were able to avoid facing each other and thus splitting the opposition vote in 387 of the 525 parliamentary contests last month...
...award makes freedom something more than anarchy because it gives the layperson an idea of what the professional community's consensus is and thus sets up a goal society should try to attain," Meselson said...