Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Recruit Co., a $3.25 billion information-and-real-estate conglomerate. But last week Takeshita conceded that over the years he and others close to him received nearly $1 million from Recruit. Referring to his October disclaimer, Takeshita pleaded a faulty memory: "I probably did not have a clear recollection of the matter then...
Washington has made clear its willingness to help Salinas quietly in any way it can, but there is a growing perception among some U.S. officials that the Mexican leader is simply running out of time. If the country does not see tangible economic rewards within the next 18 months, a U.S. official says, "we could see frustrations acted out in the streets...
Shevardnadze persuaded Moscow that its plans were foolish, but he may not be as successful in placating tempers this time. Only a public trial and punishment of the army officers responsible for the decision to clear the crowd is likely to satisfy the Georgians, and many will still press for more independence from Moscow. The Supreme Soviet last week issued a double-edged decree that is not likely to improve matters. It replaces discredited laws against dissidents but conveniently enables the state to imprison those found guilty of "kindling inter-ethnic or racial hostility." Unless ethnic passions in Tbilisi...
...Cambridge in the 1930s. Carefully disguising those links, he joined Britain's SIS and rose high enough in its ranks to rate consideration as its potential chief. Yet by the time he disappeared in 1963, only to surface in the Soviet Union a few months later, it was painfully clear that Philby all along had been not only a Soviet agent but also, as Knightley calls him, "the most remarkable spy in the history of espionage...
...cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from clear that his colleagues were prepared to battle to the last with...