Word: cedes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profits successfully stand on their own feet all the time--often with less resources than PBHA Inc. Stiles and Dwight Hall [at Yale] have been independent for decades running similar operations. Of course, I would never cede the mantle of undergraduate public service leadership to any other organization...
...whom should we blame for this political mess? Operatives Carville and McCurry? But they are just doing their jobs. Television network executives? You wouldn't cede your legally guaranteed property (in this case, the airwaves) either. Voters? Ah, yes. Blame ourselves for being victims of a passive culture...
Blame ourselves for the mental atrophy induced by television. Blame ourselves for letting politicians at first cede and now, what is the neo-liberal solution, sell, the public airwaves. Blame ourselves for being able to be seduced in politics by the same people who get paid to think of creative jingles for laundry detergent...
Unfortunately, we must rely on one of the two major parties to give it to us, though neither is equal to the task. For all intents and purposes, the Democrats and the Republicans are both incumbent parties, and the prospect that either will cede some of their own power is dim. Nonetheless, it is the only way. In this election year, members of both parties, or at least those that care about a vital democracy, must call on their candidates to take this important step quickly...
...conservative Netanyahu's mission: to win over Clinton, who had made clear his preference for former Prime Minister Shimon Peres and the Middle East peace negotiations he had championed. Netanyahu, by contrast, campaigned on promises that could halt the peace talks in their tracks: he vowed not to cede the Golan Heights to Syria, not to stop Jewish settlements in the West Bank and to put off the redeployment of Israeli troops from Hebron. At the same time, the American-educated Israeli fears denting his country's ironclad relationship with the U.S. In that respect, his timing couldn...