Word: conference
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rate throughout the course of the day at registration on Wednesday, January 30. Six-hundred seventy-five students returned the poll. Among these were 399 male respondents and 276 female respondents. The polling and analysis were conducted by Effie Anagnostopoulos, Michael Balagur, Charles Boudreau, Jay Bradner, Dan Choi, Molly Confer, Richard de Silva, Ben Davis, Jennifer Fisher, Mary Louise Kelly, Yin Nawaday, Ira Stoll, Madhavi Sunder, Erica Werner and Kim Ziev...
There was a diplomatic overture toward Jordan, which has been sympathetic toward Iraq. Bush sent Richard L. Armitage, a former assistant secretary of defense, to confer with King Hussein...
...event, the Iraqis have cooled to the E.C. Punishing the Community for revoking an earlier offer to meet him in Rome, Aziz turned down invitations earlier this month to confer in Luxembourg and Algiers with an E.C. delegation headed by Luxembourg's Foreign Minister, Jacques Poos. The Iraqis suggested a later get-together in Baghdad, but the E.C. declined, calculating that to chase after Aziz would be perceived as a sign of weakness...
...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders...
...same time, Washington knows it must not appear overeager to fire the first round; hence the latest offer of talks. Originally, President Bush proposed that Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz meet with him in Washington, after which U.S. Secretary of State Baker would confer with Saddam in Baghdad. But Saddam cleverly offered to receive Baker on Jan. 12, just three days before the deadline the U.N. has established for Iraq to leave Kuwait or face eviction by force. Bush replied that Saddam was trying to stretch out the grace period and insisted on an appointment on or before...