Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American officials view China's six-month-old copyright law as weak and have been pushing for tougher compliance in talks that went nowhere. With Congress apparently bent on enacting its own restrictions, the Administration will now move to recoup losses from Beijing's intellectual poaching by imposing tariffs on such Chinese goods as beer, watches and athletic shoes...
...politics, its certainties begin to blur. One of the primary fears of the separationists is that if government gets too involved with religion, the result will resemble the bloodless, lifeless state-backed churches in Europe. Many of the supporters of the church-state wall fear that politicians, bent on compromise more than conversion, would try to invent some inoffensive brand of faith -- the creche encircled by reindeer hauling Santa's sleigh. "What you are tending to see is a new secular state religion," says Lee Boothby, a Seventh-day Adventist who is general counsel with Americans United for Separation...
...common fear of the U.S.S.R. Now the Yugoslavs are free to fight among themselves, avenging old wrongs and seeking independence from -- or domination over -- one another. With Marx and even Tito in disrepute, the strongmen in Belgrade are exposed for what most of them have always been: Serbian imperialists, bent on maintaining control not only over their republic but over the others as well -- especially Croatia, where there is a large Serbian population...
...White House chief of staff despite recommendations from Bush's advisers and friends that Sununu be dumped for his abuse of government transportation. "But Sununu is not the same chief of staff," claims an aide. Sununu got the message: either abandon some of your perks or leave. Bush bent him with what one White House man termed "presidential tough love," a mix of ire and affection that even leaves a little room for humor. At last Thursday's Al Smith dinner, Sununu deadpanned about the difficulty getting to Manhattan: "The problem was we had trouble landing...
During Saturday's session, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch aimed squarely at the accuser, implying that Hill was working in tandem with "slick lawyers" bent on destroying Thomas' chances to join the court. Thomas appeared to endorse that view when committee chairman Joseph Biden asked if he believed that Hill had fabricated a tale of sexual harassment. "Some interest groups came up with this story, and this story was developed specifically to destroy me," the nominee responded...