Word: bows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pull out, you're a quitter!" But Irving Kristol, a conservative author, urged him to cut his losses and withdraw. Tired of the emotionally draining experience and bitter about his inevitable defeat, Bork slipped into the White House Wednesday afternoon and told the President he was inclined to bow...
Colliding ambitions sent Kim Dae Jung, 63, and Kim Young Sam, 59, the leading lights of the opposition Reunification Democratic Party, ricocheting into their own orbits. Despite earlier promises that one would bow out of the race in favor of the other, negotiations between the rival factions collapsed at a 90-minute breakfast meeting at Seoul's Diplomatic Club. Said Kim Dae Jung: "It became evident that we could not reach an agreement on a single candidate." While party mediators scrambled to bring the Kims together again, both men seemed bent on pursuing their own paths. Unless one gives...
...store, using his California license, acquired in New York. The Pro said no. He tried the local supermarket, using his Columbia i.d., acquired at Phillips Exeter Academy. Broadway bagged him. And he tried local bars, using a fake moustache, acquired at his best friend's 10th birthday party. The Bow and Arrow shot him down...
When the U.S. resigned from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1984, a major reason was the alleged bad management and antidemocratic sentiments of the organization under its director-general, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal. Citing the same reason, Britain left in 1985. Last year M'Bow announced he would not seek a third six-year term, and there was some hope that the U.S. and Britain might rejoin the agency, whose programs have been crippled by the loss of Washington's $48 million annual contribution...
...that possibility seemed more remote last week after President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia nominated M'Bow for a new term. Aides to the director-general now claim that he never promised not to accept a draft, and would serve again if elected. Though there are eleven other nominees for the job, Kaunda's endorsement carries weight: he is chairman of the Organization of African Unity, which includes 62 of UNESCO's 158 member states. The election will take place in November. Among the perks that M'Bow may be reluctant to give up: a $160,000 salary and a rent...