Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Islamabad the caretaker government of Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was startled by the aid cutoff. Some Pakistani officials do not believe Washington is serious, because it needs Islamabad's help in the gulf. Others chalk it up to irritation on Capitol Hill at the dismissal of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on corruption charges. If elections are open and fair, they believe, the "political problems in Washington" will ease...
...condemn this modern "Saladin" (sic) is because of the endless number of atrocities which he is currently committing against his fellow Arabs and Muslims, against helpless human beings. There can be no justification for the systematic executions, imprisonment, rape, wholesale looting and robbery in Kuwait. Can we simply chalk up these crimes to the neccessities of subduing a conquered land? Would they in time abate? The answer, judging from Saddam's history of human rights violations, is an uniquivocal...
...chalk giant...
...then, mercifully, Fred's bus pulls up. "Think you'll go to law school?" is the last thing I hear from Fred, as I chalk up yet another great awkward conversation...
...goal of forming some kind of bond, as weak as it may be, has been reached. Chalk one up for both sides. Forming the bond was the real point of the conversation, while finding out where the other person lives was secondary...