Word: assuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Democratic Front that rules Addis Ababa has assured aid workers that they will be protected. The front also is making efforts to assert control over outlying areas where the government's collapse left citizens without a reliable supply line, for instance in the city of Dire Dawa, in the...
-- General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had serious personal reservations -- as did Schwarzkopf and other senior U.S. officers -- about President Bush's determination to switch from defense to offense in the gulf. Powell, in particular, is portrayed as worrying about the possibility of getting bogged down...
Unfortunately, the uproar over this incident did virtually nothing to alter the institutional tendency to cover up health risks. One year later, the Environmental Health and Safety Committee is still off-limits to students. The only change is that Jewett says he has been "assured that if there are any...
Wickham leans over and pecks his wife of 42 years, Gladys, on the cheek. "Wish me luck, honey," he calls, as a uniformed security guard lines the players up double file and marches them into the chandeliered casino, where 30 gleaming Super Seven slot machines are cordoned off behind red...
The gulf war, the first crisis of Bush's NWO, was in fact a display case for the weaknesses and the strengths of typical American behavior. Our pussyfooting diplomacy before the invasion of Kuwait was intended to be a simple lawyerly proposition. Because we wanted to be honest brokers, we...