Word: concessioners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a different political climate last fall, a bill pushing for increased sanctions against Cuba was going nowhere in Congress. But after Cuba shot down two planes two weeks ago, the Helms-Burton Bill quickly revived. Passed by the Senate on Tuesday, the bill is breezed through the...
That afternoon he arrived at the Goffstown fire station, to stand before half a dozen firemen and a spray of cameras. The one thing missing was a crowd. Only about 12 supporters turned up, and some were regulars; two were an affluent Marshalltown, Iowa, couple. His voice thick, his eyes...
"No one at either side is prepared to make a major concession at this point, [but] that can't go on forever," she adds.
The only concession that the administration was willing to make was to address the transition from old to new structures. They promised that the new assistant dean would be working by July 1995 and have the opportunity not only to observe the operations of the PBHA summer programs, but also...
In an apparent concession to Republicans in order to win support for his Bosnia initiative, President Clinton allowed a military appropriations bill that he had previously threatened to veto to become law today without his signature. The Republican-sponsored plan allots $243 billion for the Defense Department, $7 billion more...