Word: cedes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...timing is excruciating. Rostenkowski has promised to unveil his outline of a health bill immediately after Congress's Memorial Day recess. Yet under the rules of the House Democratic Caucus, if a committee chairman is indicted for a felony punishable by more than two years in prison, he must cede his chairmanship, though not his committee membership. (He can return later if vindicated.) And so at precisely the moment when he planned to move Bill Clinton's most important legislation through the key House committee, the chairman might be stepping down in shame...
...international focus is on keeping up the diplomatic pace. American envoy Charles Redman plans to sit down with Bosnian and Croat leaders to decide how much territory they will ask the Serbs to cede and what relationship the Serbs will have with their motherland. The Bosnian Serbs have been backing away from their previous willingness to hand over enough land to provide the Muslims and Croats with 50% of the country...
...What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what...
...Diller thought so little of Redstone's counter that he vowed QVC would simply stand pat, which was tantamount to a claim of victory. Nor was it clear why Huizenga, whose extraordinarily successful Blockbuster has been on a prodigious buying spree of its own for the past year, would cede control of his own company. Huizenga, a clever and willful entrepreneur who had built the company into not only the largest retailer of home videos and Hollywood's largest single customer but also the majority owner of Spelling Entertainment, Republic Pictures and the Florida Marlins baseball team, mystified analysts...
Though some Republicans reacted favorably to Clinton's bill, particularly since it incorporated so many pieces of their platform, they were unwilling to cede him so valuable an issue. G.O.P. lawmakers complained that the amount of money proposed for new prisons, $700 million, fell far short. They also wanted to expand mandatory-sentencing guidelines, which Attorney General Reno loudly, adamantly opposed...