Word: concessioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paramount among the collective leadership group is President and Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin. In spite of those titles, Jiang is viewed as a lightweight politician and possibly a short-term transition figure. An easy way to toughen up his unimpressive image is to stand up to the U.S. on...
Tragic romantics let ideals dissipate their lives. The realm of the possible for them is at once infinite and unachieveable. Always waiting for perfection to arrive or always working adamantly and vainly for it, their expectations of life are never tempered by concession to reality. Tragic romantics are a paradox...
Serbs allowed two trucks carrying construction materials and firewood to enter Sarajevo today. U.N. officials said that the cooperation, however limited, with international efforts to aid the devastated city signals that a month-old truce in Bosnia is holding. The concession by the Serbs accompanies a general lessening of armed...
After all, I don't go to the game just to see the ballplayers. I usually spend as much time in the concession lines as I do watching the game.
Given the size of the servings these days, that is an increasingly dangerous practice. Food that used to be delivered in modest quantities is now dished out in humongous portions that would satisfy Godzilla. Graphing the size of McDonald's largest burgers, from the Big Mac to the Double Quarter...