Word: ado
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compliance if the deadline is not met. When Bush broached the idea of such a resolution to him, French President Mitterrand declared, "I said yes." But Mitterrand added that there would and should be no "automatisme" about the resolution. The apparent meaning: rather than starting to bomb without further ado once the deadline passed, the U.S. would be obliged to consult, presumably with the U.N.'s military staff committee, about what kind of military action to take and when...
Many FOP participants said they thought the steering committee was making much ado about nothing...
...like going to the U.S. Open for the girls' singles, hoping to spot next year's Capriati. This annual autumn event in Manhattan offers an evening of one-act plays by aspiring dramatists, who must be under 18 at the time of submission. The works, typically, are much ado about first love and sensitive, misunderstood youth; typically, also, at least one of the sketches shows potential genius struggling toward maturity. Through...
Drexel officials are shocked by the backlash, which a spokesman calls "much ado about nothing." The firm contends that many of the bonuses were promised to executives early in 1989 and that Drexel's best and brightest might have quit en masse if such rewards had not been dangled before them. Nevertheless, Drexel violated one of the cardinal rules of compensation: that bonuses should be linked to corporate performance...
Theory one: Much Ado About Nothing. Republican party loyalists insist that it's not intellectual manliness. President Bush has explained Quayle's assertions away. They don't exist; they are only nuances in emphases, only subtle intonations, only subjective expressions of the same responses...