Word: concessioners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a concession to Boris Yeltsin's continued poor health, President Clinton will travel to Helsinki next month for a two-day summit. The meeting, scheduled for March 20-21, was originally set for Washington, but was moved to a site closer to Moscow out of concerns about...
WASHINGTON: In its annual human rights report, the State Department harshly reprimands China for silencing all voices of dissent. The report states: "All public dissent against party and government was effectively silenced by intimidation, exile or the imposition of prison terms, administrative detention, or house arrest. No dissidents were known...
1 Bob Dole. At one point in his quest for the presidency, the Republican candidate told a crowd that as the head of the Red Cross, wife Elizabeth had seen many natural disasters, "and I'm not including my campaign in that." Ah, but there was a calamity at every...
In 1994, Harvard reduced the percentage it contributed to the pension plan from five percent to four percent. To return the contribution to its original five percent is no great concession on the part of the University.
Speakers at the Lyman Common Room meeting of 25 student members praised the first step as movement toward greater engagement and the second as a concession to reality.