Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Inaugural Address last January, George Bush obliquely appealed to Iran to work with him for the release of nine American hostages held by Islamic groups in Lebanon. Since then the U.S. and Iran have carried on a delicate game of winks and nods, feints and gestures. The game sometimes requires both sides, for their own reasons, to pretend that they are not actually playing. And for the Americans, there is always the suspicion that the Iranian aloofness is for real...
...view most of the claims had been paid out. Tehran wanted the balance, now about $820 million, that remained of the $1.4 billion the account originally held. In 1987 the Reagan Administration had unsuccessfully resisted a similar $500 million claim by Iran against a different account. This time the Bush Administration responded by dispatching Sofaer to the Hague. As part of the deal that was eventually reached, Iran agreed that $243 million from the account will be transferred to a third fund, covering claims against Iran by individual American citizens and corporations...
...what veteran White House observers said was an extension of the administration's cautious approach to superpower conflicts, President Bush yesterday refused to predict a winner in today's Game...
...proposal sped through the House with strong support from the leaders of both parties and an endorsement from President Bush, passing by a vote of 252 to 174. A slight majority of Republicans voting opposed the bill despite Bush's stance...
...Bush, who has been seeking for months to increase salaries for his top aides and for federal judges, cleared the way for House action this week. By giving his blessing to the package, he made it more difficult for Democrats or Republicans to use pay as a partisan issue...