Word: almost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Escalon offensive rattled Cristiani, who only three days earlier had held a press conference to display a cache of weapons, including 24 surface- to-air missiles, found in the wreckage of a twin-engine Cessna that had crashed some 70 miles east of San Salvador. The plane almost certainly took off from Nicaragua, bolstering Cristiani's conviction that Ortega's Sandinista government was supplying arms to the F.M.L.N. despite a personal promise to Cristiani last August not to do so. Cristiani suspended diplomatic relations with Nicaragua and refused to attend a summit of Central American Presidents scheduled for this weekend...
...Reykjavik summit in 1986, Gorbachev opened the encounter with a list of sweeping arms proposals that kept Ronald Reagan off balance for the rest of their time together. This time it was Bush who produced the printed sheet of specifics almost as soon as he and Gorbachev sat down in the book-lined cardroom of the Soviet cruise liner Maxim Gorky. Putting before him 112 typed pages of items, the President started out nervously, his voice tight. Gorbachev, sitting across from him, listened intently. When Bush finished speaking, nearly one hour later, he had set out what one White House...
...with five years ago, there are a significantly greater number of lawyers today who are not practicing law for a living," says Ward Bower, a partner at the legal consulting firm Altman & Weil in Ardmore, Pa. Experts estimate that nearly 40,000 lawyers a year are leaving the profession, almost as many people as are entering law school annually. A Maryland State Bar Association survey last December found that 35% of the lawyers who responded were not sure they wished to continue practicing...
...major increase in working hours, coupled with a corresponding rise in stress, has led to an erosion in the quality of life for many lawyers. Law firms often require that each year attorneys do 2,000 to 2,500 hours of work that can be billed to clients, almost a third more than a decade ago. That frequently translates into twelve-hour-plus workdays and busy weekends as well...
...moviegoers willing to follow director Danny DeVito and screenwriter Michael Leeson down an increasingly dark and comedically dangerous path. The problem is their house, symbol of everything they have struggled to achieve. Barbara is willing to forgo alimony if she can keep it. Oliver is ready to pay her almost anything if he can have it. His lawyer (nicely played by DeVito) discovers an obscure statute under which they can divorce yet continue to live under the roof on which they have lavished their truest love...