Word: assuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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He assured the crowd that political battles in Iran are not too fierce.
Late last month Kevorkian called again. I think his words were something to the effect, "We have to wrap this up. How soon can you be here?" I thought for about 10 or 15 seconds and I said, "One week." Kevorkian assured him that there was still time, that the...
India's Parliament met but could conduct no business; legislators only banged their desks and screamed insults at one another. Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao came under heavy fire for indecisiveness and overly conciliatory gestures toward extremists. In response, he ordered the arrest of two senior leaders of the Bharatiya...
That point finally came last week with the U.N.'s action. But even if the security of the famine-relief operation is assured, Somalia will still be an anti-country: the victims of the warlords will merely be better fed.
Sometimes art gets it just right. In a particularly delicious scene in The Distinguished Gentleman, the latest Hollywood film about political corruption, a lobbyist asks the movie's protagonist his position on sugar-price supports. The con artist turned Congressman (played by Eddie Murphy) has gone to Washington to commit...