Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current situation gives the Palestinians no base from which to negotiate and gives the Israelis little incentive to do so. By threatening to reduce our massive aid package, Question 5 merely aims to balance a skewed foreign policy in the interests of compromise. By voting "Yes" on 5, we are not "taking the side" of Israel's enemies...
Political observers note that Kennedy helped clinch his victory by responding that Libya had offered asylum to Sirhan Sirhan after he had assassinated his father, and that any accusations that Kennedy had dealt with Libya were off base. While Bachrach was approaching a tie with Kennedy before the debate, polls shortly afterwards gave Kennedy a lead of more than 10 points...
...strengthen the retail base of the neighborhood...
...medieval alchemists who tried to turn base metals into gold had the right idea, but they may have set their sights too low. Using modern techniques, scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have accomplished an even more amazing transformation: they have turned sewage gas into diamonds...
...took nearly seven months of sometimes acrimonious negotiations, but last week the U.S. and the Philippines signed a two-year compensation agreement covering the use of Subic Bay Naval Station and Clark Air Base, America's biggest overseas bases. Unhappy with the annual $181 million the U.S. had been paying, Manila initially demanded $2.3 billion in yearly compensation. The U.S. countered with a first offer of $360 million but later added to the package. After signing the pact in Washington last week, Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus maintained that the U.S. had come close to meeting Manila's minimum demands...