Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite the obstacles that await them, the researchers remain optimistic about their work. As they conclude in their paper, "This information may prove useful even before we understand why it is true...
...University officials can only await General Accounting's arrival on March 1. Mean-while, at Harvard, Med School Professor Eisenberg takes the cynical approach. He says federal investigators will likely find accounting errors during their probe because, in general, mistakes will be made...
...will stop at nothing tends, naturally, to go a long way against adversaries who observe certain restraints and conventions of decency. The law of the jungle is called that because the beastly threaten, by their sheer beastliness, to prevail over the civilized. That is why, as Saddam's neighbors await his next move, they don their gas masks...
Caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place, Gorbachev has bent to the hard-liners that have besieged him with demands for an authoritarian retrenchment. The big, bad bear is back, crushing unarmed demonstrators, establishing control, glutting the airwaves with propaganda--while 450,000 Soviet troops await orders from the Kremlin from posts throughout Eastern Europe. Suddenly, the regional power vacuum looms as a dangerous, unignorable challenge to international stability...
...start of the conflict and soon after Iraq invaded Kuwait, Bush ordered 125,000 troops to the Gulf. In the course of several weeks, more than 200,000 additional troops were deployed to Saudi Arabia to await orders...