Word: brought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fully accept that this parliament is the supreme body of state power. There is no other body in this country that can make major decisions on domestic and foreign policy. Our military, by the way, especially the command, is very disciplined and brought up in a spirit of respect for the bodies of power in this country. In the U.S., there are many who underestimate this factor and think that in the Soviet Union the highest military command can get its own way on major matters. This is absolutely out of the question. Your estimation of your own military would...
When such broad discretionary power is granted, arbitrary police actions are the inevitable result. So far, in those instances where Israeli police officers in the occupied territories have been invested with powers of arrest on such vague grounds, charges have been eventually brought against only 3 percent of those arrested...
...last Tuesday, precisely a week after the devastating earthquake, church bells pealed throughout San Francisco to mark the city's survival and recovery. But a few churches declined to join in the commemoration, which had been requested by Mayor Art Agnos, because the reverberations from the tolling might have brought cracked belfries tumbling down. About 90 minutes after the clangor of the bells died out came the ominous rumbling of yet another aftershock, one of thousands that have done little discernible damage but are likely to keep rattling the nerves of residents for weeks...
...York City investment house. Upon entry, Michael Lewis was presented with a choice of two career tracks. A commercial banker took deposits and made loans. He was not, Lewis learned, "any more trouble than Dagwood Bumstead. He had a wife, a station wagon, 2.2 children and a dog that brought him his slippers." An investment banker, on the other hand, was a "member of a master race of deal makers" who "possessed vast, almost unimaginable talent and ambition. If he had a dog, it snarled. He had two little red sports cars yet wanted four." The trainee opted for avarice...
...stores. Cars and trucks again ply the rutted roads, and offices that used to close after lunch so workers could get home before the shooting started are now open for business all day. Farmers are busy cultivating cassava and coffee. Industrial production has begun to revive, and the economy, brought to its knees by mismanagement and war, grew 5% last year...