Word: concessioner
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For the moment, an uneasy equilibrium was reached. By most accounts, the U.S. had pumped sufficient firepower into Saudi Arabia to deter an Iraqi attack but not enough to retake Kuwait by force. The interim was giving both sides time to work out just what they were willing to fight...
His popularity and state budget may be anemic. But when the lame-duck Governor was asked whether he would ever run for President again, he said, "I don't think you rule it out, I don't think you rule it in." Retorted comic Jay Leno: "I hear he's...
Despite the concession to Yeltsin's demand for faster change, the committee is packed with Gorbachev supporters. Alongside Boris Fyodorov, 32, Yeltsin's finance minister, sit several of the President's closest advisers. Before Sept. 1, when Gorbachev returns from his summer vacation in the Crimea, the committee is to...
At 7:46, the P.A. announcer directed the spectators' attention to the concession stands, where non-alcoholic beer was being sold. The fans booed.
A pattern began to form. The Soviets posed a number of tests for the U.S., and Washington passed most of them. Pavlov argued that Moscow's ability to stem the flow of weapons to Central America depended on Soviet confidence that the military threat to Managua was lessening. In response...