Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fouling up negotiations on the U.N. resolution. They claimed she ignored instructions from the National Security Council and initially supported a resolution that called for economic sanctions against Israel, urged nations to review their arms policies toward the Jewish state, and declared that Iraq had a right to collect compensation from the Israelis. When Haig received a copy of the draft in Peking, according to the aides, he scribbled a note to Kirkpatrick telling her that the U.S. could not vote for such a resolution. The aides contended that she succeeded only in persuading the Iraqis to abandon the call...
...McGee isn't talking to the reader, he is out talking to people. He doesn't precisely solve crimes, but finds them out by talking to a number of people, each of whom has already solved a small piece of the puzzle for himself. McGee's course is to collect all these smaller solutions and assemble them, fitting the pieces into a triumphant comprehension of crime and evil...
...trouble began at Jackson on May 21, when two guards were attacked by inmates, apparently without provocation. The next day, representatives of the guards demanded that the prisoners be locked up and shaken down to collect the illicit weapons. Both Warden Barry Mintzes and State Corrections Director Perry Johnson vetoed the plan as unnecessarily provocative, but the guards began a lockup anyway. Fearful that they might be confined to their cells over the long holiday weekend, prisoners in four of Jackson's 14 cellblocks refused to be caged. They turned on the guards, who fled to safety, and began...
...pass the costs on to the tenants. The city examiner disallowed some of the costs claimed by HRE, shifting the burden for payment to the University. HRE officials say that the costs were reasonable and that work on the building was atypical because there was not enough time to collect bids from contractors...
...multiply. "If the injury is short-lived," says Russell Ross of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, "the proliferation process is reversible. But if the injury is chronic and repeated in the same sites in an artery wall, then you have a buildup." Cholesterol and debris collect around the muscle cells, an atherosclerotic plaque develops and the artery narrows. Platelets continue to congregate and may eventually help create a clot that completely blocks blood flow. Says DeWitt Goodman of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: "There is good reason to think if you interfere with...