Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to lift the debt ceiling to gain leverage in budget negotiations; the Administration had an equal interest in casting the Republicans as reckless for holding the nation's credit hostage to "extreme" demands. Both sides, however, were quietly counting on Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to stave off an actual default through internal bookkeeping changes--and last Wednesday he came through. He used an arcane process called "disinvestment," which enabled him to shift tens of billions of dollars from two interest-bearing retirement funds into accounts that earn no interest. Then he extended ious guaranteeing federal workers that the principal...
...retaliated by refusing for months to confirm 18 ambassadors. Meanwhile, START II, the chemical-weapons convention, nine bilateral investment treaties and other pacts are also languishing. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott says Congress is "flirting with ideas that are isolationist in their potential consequence if not in their actual intent. There's a resurgence of the view that we can now afford to go it alone." This is hardly a platform from which Clinton, flush from his Bosnia success--if it comes--can launch a new internationalism...
Currently, HAND's funding is provided by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (IAS), but the actual money is disbursed by the OPS, which is where the HAND office is also located...
...scenic" voyage to New Haven and the "unique" culture to be experienced at Yale were impossible opportunities to miss--the trip could be a voyage of self-discovery among the trees and the grass, underneath a clear blue and cool sky. What a perfect setting for meditation! The actual game was a catalyst for male bonding among the Harvard youths, an experience in mild exercise, which was not mandatory, but recommended as a complement to a rigorous academic program...
Gomes succeeds in criticizing a world which he portrays with great love. His scenes are richly detailed, especially the pre-marriage ceremonies and a neighbor's worries about being evicted from her home. However, the actual story is not as coherent as it should be. The frequent discussion of Nundo, an old revolutionary friend of Vicente, seems puzzling since no one explains who he is. When the audience finally sees him, Nundo abandons Vicente in a huge tizzy over the moral dilemma of his country's political health. His position is never resolved...