Word: bona
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system my companion was interested in, even though the particular production lines were temporarily shut down. But why, demanded the factory director, had we come to the far reaches of Russia, when a certain East European country had similar units for sale? The answer established my companion's bona fides: his client, a Middle East country, wanted to buy those very units and after months of negotiation reached a satisfactory price. But a shuffle of ministers ushered in a new set of officials, who also demanded to be cut in on the deal, making the price too high...
...loan that the Governor had made to his own campaign fund the previous year (making personal loans to their campaigns is a common practice among politicians). There is some suspicion that at least part of the money may have come from Madison's depositors rather than from bona fide individual contributors...
More than 30 years later, as "Rashomon" makes its appearance at the Harvard Film Archives as a bona fide classic of world cinema, it is difficult to see what all the fuss was about. The respect that Japanese cinema commands nowadays, respect won in part by "Rashomon" prevents one from imagining a time when this wasn't the case, a time in which "Roshomon" would have come as a bomb of sorts...
Washington's continued willingness to negotiate with Haiti's military leaders stuns Aristide supporters. "Apparently," marvels Robert White, a former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador and an unpaid adviser to Aristide, "nothing will shake the touching faith the Clinton Administration has in the Haitian military's bona fides...
...UNITA announcement that it was ready to accept last year's election results. But the rebel movement, which will be hit next month by U.N. sanctions that include a freezing of its global assets and the expulsion of its diplomats from world capitals, has yet to demonstrate its bona fides by relinquishing its hold over 65% of the country, a territorial concession demanded by the government as a precondition for peace...