The house, in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, had been in the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy's family for years, his getaway in the summer months and his sanctuary where he was sent to retire in 1974, at age 48, after victims of sexual abuse demanded he be removed from work at a school for the deaf near Milwaukee.
Indeed, American taxpayers looked inward, demanded a "peace dividend" from decades of high defense spending, and rediscovered a host of internal ills from poor education in many of the nation's schools to pervasive drug abuse demanding attention from a Washington seemingly no longer distracted by the Red Army.
The daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, she's chronicled her own problems with substance abuse, demanding parents, unhappy relationships and mental illness since writing the semi-autobiographical novel Postcards from the Edge in 1987.
Blackadder, who has wondered if the system will be abused, demanded an apology from the Bulls for besmirching his team's integrity.
He made frequent campaign trips to the boroughs outside Manhattan, where he denounced welfare abuse, unconscionable demands by municipal unions and wasteful spending by city agencies.
As a certain someone who has demanded and received the spotlight continues to bully from his bully pulpit, here are just a couple of reminders of why individual peer-to-peer abuse still demands as much attention as ever.
The arrogance, profanity, offensive pecuniary extravagance and, especially, the domestic abuse convictions, demanded he play the bad guy.
Business representatives said state laws on paid leaves were often so broad that they risked abuses like demands for paid leaves for minor health concerns.
GENEVA — The United Nations experts investigating human rights conditions in North Korea said Tuesday that the "shocking" evidence they had collected from defectors and others suggested "large-scale" patterns of abuse that demanded an international response.
The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has blocked a law that would silence victims of domestic violence, forced marriage and child abuse and demanded major revisions after a campaign by Afghan activists and western diplomats.
Now, after thirty years of continual abuses, it demands that its officials respond as they are supposed to: in favor of the interests of the population, and not at the service of a clique of thieves and contrabandists operating out of the Presidential Residence".
