Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think we've turned art into an act of survival," Thompson said...
Congress later negated that ruling when they amended the Indian Civil Rights Act. Under the revised act, a tribe's criminal jurisdiction covers all Native Americans...
Another reason, of course, is to placate conservative supporters by giving them a longer show of Oval Office sins, especially since these Senators cannot deliver the final act that Clinton haters crave. And the Senators are counting on national amnesia to set in among moderate voters, so they'll remember only that the Senate did not remove Clinton, not that it dragged everyone through a couple of unnecessary weeks. These penultimate votes will serve as keepsakes for the core constituency, the kind of folks who can still tell you who gave away the Panama Canal...
...power was always a balancing act, straddling the contending claims of the Palestinian majority in his own country with those of the Bedouin and the military's officer corps while managing variously antagonistic relationships with Israel, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt...
...last political act of the five-foot-three giant known affectionately by Westerners as the "PLK" ("Plucky Little King") was to intervene in Jordan's Shakespearean palace intrigue to ensure that he would be succeeded by his son, Abdullah, rather than his brother, Hassan. Despite being immersed in the modern concerns of diplomacy and statesmanship, the importance of the royal bloodline never diminished for Hussein...