Word: use
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...this issue is more important than the mere state of the first-year. These problems occur in gasp...Harvard classrooms. I have heard that they extend to everyday speech as well. I propose that we should all alternate the use of male and female references. By switching pronouns throughout a lecture, a professor can't be much more confusing than he (or she) already is, and the rest of us can rest assured that we are all safely in the boundaries of neutrality when we speak to one another. So what if we don't understand a word...
...House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congress has been demanding a voice in any decision to fight Iraq; 45 House Democrats went so far as to file a lawsuit asking the federal courts to enjoin Bush from committing U.S. forces to combat without prior authorization from Congress. A U.N. use-of-force resolution could encourage Congress to grant such authorization. "It would have some significant impact if the United Nations granted such a resolution," said House Speaker Thomas Foley, one of several leaders who accompanied Bush on his Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole, another...
...Soviet attitude is even more unsure. U.S. and Soviet officials canceled a Bush-Gorbachev press conference that they had scheduled in Paris, obviously because the two Presidents, dining together, had failed to agree on a use-of- force resolution. Both sides then scrambled to deny any impression of a ( serious split. Bush declared that he and Gorbachev "see eye to eye," and any differences are "extraordinarily minor." Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze both said the Security Council needed to take further action against Iraq, but neither would use what journalists have begun to call "the F word...
...drug court, which has had success in keeping first-time drug offenders out of further trouble by forcing them to accept treatment, got no financial help from the state. Even the Governor's office finds it hard to point to progress in Florida's effort to curb drug use...
...view that victory is in sight is shared by the President and his outgoing drug czar. While drug use has plunged in the middle class, cocaine and crime still rage in poor neighborhoods. Bush shares Thanksgiving with the G.I.s...