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...Hara ever to be hungry again. Newhart is living the yuppie fantasy of owning a Vermont country inn. Even the downwardly mobile Philadelphia lawyer of Shannon's Deal can still manage to take a first date out for a $172 restaurant meal. Yes, one of My Two Dads did abandon an oversize New York apartment during reruns but only because he left his heart in San Francisco...
...A.N.C. went into the discussions with a firm set of demands that Pretoria must meet before real negotiations can begin: an end to the state of emergency imposed in 1986 and an amnesty for A.N.C. exiles and political prisoners. De Klerk, in turn, insisted that the A.N.C. formally abandon its "armed struggle" and stop the violence sweeping the country...
...Washington's "implicit" support for the Khmer Rouge, and separate verification of Vietnam's withdrawal as first steps toward a long-term political solution. This would shift the U.S. focus away from the rebel coalition that includes the Khmer Rouge and would require the U.S. to abandon its unyielding opposition to Hun Sen. As Muskie put it in a speech last December, "When we finally left Vietnam, we opened the way for the historic conflict between Vietnam and China to re-emerge. Vietnam went on to invade Cambodia, and China invaded Vietnam. In these conflicts, we took the side...
...solitude is broken in the final room where the tone abruptly changes. There, bold early 20th-century works dominate. The American artists abandon somber colors for brighter hues in works which are no longer constrained to the traditional landscape and portrait genres...
...curse, inflicted upon the family by a witch burned at the stake by one of Ruthven's ancestors, decrees that each succeeding baron must commit a crime each day or die in agony. Thus exposed, Ruthven must abandon Rose and return to Ruddigore Castle and begin his life of crime. After incurring the displeasure of the ghosts of his ancestors for performing crimes deemed too paltry (he forges his own will and disinherits a son he does not have), Ruthven discovers a way to escape the curse, and, in typical Gilbert and Sullivan style, live happily ever after...