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Sharon Seeks belligerence Deal, Sharon Seeks belligerency Deal, Sharon Seeks Nonblocking Deal, or Sharon Seeks Nonoccurrence Deal ?
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sunset laws
sunset laws statutes that deal with the tendency of government agencies and programs to be self-perpetuating by providing for their periodic review.... Read more |
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Wrong
WRONG A violation, by one individual, of another individual's legal rights. The idea of rights suggests the opposite idea of wrongs, for every right is capable of being violated. For example, a right to receive payment for goods sold implies a wrong on the part of the person who owes, but does... Read more |
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Geraldine League
Geraldine League is the name given to the political alliance formed in 1538 in Ireland to seek the reinstatement of Gerald Fitzgerald as earl of Kildare, resist the protestant Reformation, and secure the recall of the Lord Deputy Grey. The instigator was Manus O'Donnell, chief of Tyrconnel,... Read more |
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Leslie Marmon Silko
Silko, Leslie Marmon (1948– ),reared with her Plains Indian family in New Mexico, the place she wrote about in her first book, Laguna Woman (1974), a collection of poems. She then wrote her first novel, Ceremony (1977), dealing with a Native American who seeks to recover heritage and old... Read more |
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Deal
Deal town (1991 pop. 26,311), Kent, SE England, on the Downs, an important passage for Channel shipping. It is a popular holiday resort. There is some boat building. Other industries include brush making, the production of plastics, and precision engineering. Deal is the reputed landing place of... Read more |
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John Guare
John Guare , 1938-, American playwright, b. New York City; grad. Georgetown Univ. (B.A., 1960), Yale Univ. (M.F.A., 1963). Guare's freewheeling, satirical plays are the antithesis of "kitchen sink" naturalism, with darkly comic situations sometimes veering into violence. Frequently dealing with... Read more |
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American Bar Association
American Bar Association (ABA), voluntary organization of lawyers admitted to the bar of any state. Founded (1878) largely through the efforts of the Connecticut Bar Association, it is devoted to improving the administration of justice, seeking uniformity of law throughout the nation, and... Read more |
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Espionage Act
Espionage Act (1917) and Sedition Act (1918) Robert N. Strassfeld On the evening of April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint session of Congress seeking a declaration of war against Germany and its allies. Later that night, Representative Edwin Webb, of North Carolina,... Read more |
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Shock Therapy
SHOCK THERAPY The term shock therapy has come to arouse a great deal of controversy. Its original use was related to the use of electrical shocks as therapy in psychiatric treatment. In economic policy, it has been used to describe powerful austerity measures designed to break spirals of very rapid... Read more |
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Bush seeks calm in Mideast.
...meet Mr. Arafat, Mr. Sharon, and other leaders...to agree on a peace deal. "The negotiations...deal. The hawkish Mr. Sharon, elected by Israelis...Palestinians a temporary nonbelligerency accord including the...of Jerusalem. Mr. ... |