Word: cedes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While refusing to cede an inch of territory to Iraq, Bush appears willing to allow Soviet reactionaries to get their way in the Baltics. "Self-determination" is well and good, "appeasement" is nasty and bad, but there's a war on, a coalition to uphold and a newfound U.S.-Soviet quasi-alliance to protect...
...continue to be the responsible, caring, sensitive and egalitarian person you have been? Will you defend me and what I represent? When you're sitting around with your male club members in your closed space smoking cigars and drinking gin and tonics, will you cede me the respect I continue to have for you? Do you trust your new fellows and the institution you have just joined enough to be responsible for them and their actions...
...month to cut short his six-year term as President. Walesa, 47, who has long made no secret of his ambitions, immediately declared his intention to run. Mazowiecki, 63, once one of Walesa's main advisers, entered the race last week. Mazowiecki's announcement ended speculation that he might cede the presidency to Walesa in the hope of halting the country's growing political polarization. In the end, Mazowiecki was swayed by the argument that Walesa, who forced Jaruzelski to resign, should not be allowed simply to steamroller his way into power. No matter what the outcome, the fight between...
Despite a sound trouncing in last May's elections, Burma's military junta has yet to move forward on its promise to cede control of the country, which it now calls Myanmar, to the "largest party." Last week it actually took a step backward. Citing "security reasons," government forces in Rangoon and Mandalay arrested six top leaders of the National League for Democracy, the opposition party that won 80% of the seats in the national legislature. The arrests came a week after the junta said it would release N.L.D. leader Aung San Suu Kyi if she agreed to leave...
...week, but he is not nearly through with his tiny neighbor. Among his demands are $2.4 billion in compensation for oil he claims Kuwait has pumped from Iraqi territory, along the countries' disputed 100-mile frontier. Saddam also wants Kuwait to forgive Iraq's war loans and lease or cede to Baghdad the strategic island of Bubiyan, a large sandbar in the Persian Gulf that blocks much of Iraq's paltry 18 miles of shoreline. No one believes Iraq is actually eager to invade Kuwait to achieve these ends if they can be accomplished through coercion instead. But just...