Word: cave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese made their own threat to fight any sanctions by accusing the U.S. of a "betrayal of trust"in multinational negotiations to reduce tariffs. But even as the Japanese were applauding Hosokawa's refusal to cave in to Clinton, his government was calculating how to avoid a fight. Early in the week Tokyo was unnerved when the yen rose about 6% against the dollar while Washington stood by with arms folded. The upward pressure came from speculators counting on the U.S. to encourage a stronger yen to make American products cheaper in Japan. Because that would also cut into...
...Washington last weekend. Clinton considers himself a lifetime member of the N.G.A. and sometimes forgets that Governors are not as important to him now, compared with members of Congress. In White House meetings, Clinton stunned allies when he hinted to his former colleagues that he was willing to cave on two central, and controversial, provisions of his reform plan: the spending caps on insurance premiums, and the large purchasing pools known as alliances that are designed to help drive down costs...
There are two reasons behind the faculty's desire to avoid survey teaching. One is that a professor who spends all of his or her time researching a specific field does not necessarily feel qualified to teach a class which deals with art from prehistoric cave drawings to Lichtenstein...
...tiny figure in a grove of fig trees or waist-deep in riverside grass; older kids can learn to spot the civet cat, the yellow hornbill and the impalas, kudus and wildebeests she passes. The exceptional illustrations treat the vast African landscape with awe and love. Beautifully redrawn cave paintings, based on work by prehistoric artists who saw much the same landscape -- a rhinoceros, a fish and what might be an antelope -- serve as endpapers...
...since this whole hospital merger has been such a soap opera, maybe they should just cave in and call it "General Hospital...