Word: bulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vehemently against any open break with Israel for a year, since the Israeli air raid on the Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad in June 1981. In part, he believes that public criticism has the same effect on the stub born Begin that waving a red flag has on a bull: it only provokes him to still more outrageous behavior. Also, Haig believes that since the Israeli invasion has smashed the military power of the Palestine Liberation Organization, U.S. diplomacy has a chance not only to re-create an independent and neutral Lebanon but move toward a general Middle East peace...
...development for so long," she adds John Conally, executive director of the Private Industry Council, which works with CETA officials to locate private sector jobs, says. "I believe the upturn will happen shortly. If the government program [to improve the economy] doesn't do it, business will take the bull by the horns...
...quiet Sunday as the picadors at all three networks prepared to implant their banderillas in the hides of their talk-show guests. NBC's Meet the Press had drawn the best bull, the one most likely to be goaded into making a Monday headline. This was the controversial Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ambassador...
...Rome by proclaiming the Pope's personal infallibility-when he declares ex cathedra (from the throne) on a matter of faith and morals. It also insisted on the Pope's direct jurisdiction over each and every believer on earth. This was, perhaps, an improvement on the papal bull of 1302 that declared, "It is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff." The 1870 decree caused dissension even within the ranks of Catholic bishops, some of whom pointedly returned to their sees in the U.S. and Northern Europe before the council...
...world of Socialist schoolteachers who have never met a payroll." Delors clearly had a part in narrowing the scope of the nationalization program that had been an integral element of the Socialist-Communist platform since 1972. Certain French subsidiaries of large foreign firms, such as ITT and Honeywell Bull, were allowed, for example, to retain their foreign participation. When France's Constitutional Court decreed higher compensation for expropriated assets, the government readily complied...