Word: cordials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader in Burma, met with the two generals who govern the country for the first time since she was placed under house arrest five years ago. A government-controlled newspaper described the meeting as "cordial," without giving details. Suu Kyi won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent efforts to restore democracy to Burma...
...Balladur looks beclouded in Corfu, another conservative, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, will be beaming. The media billionaire turned politician should get a cordial greeting at his first summit, following his successful maiden foreign trip to Bonn last week. His vanity-plate party, Forza Italia, won big with 30.6% of last week's vote, a giant step up from the 21% of only three months ago in the national elections. A glum editorial in the left-leaning La Repubblica lamented that Italians "chose unanimously to shout that they wanted to be governed by Silvio Berlusconi." The landslide sparked...
Chilton County had another election in 1992. Researchers from the University of New Orleans who conducted exit polls report that relations between races at the polling places were cordial but tense. Of the white voters polled, 48% said they found the election experience "poor," but 88% understood it well enough to know you could cast all seven votes for the same candidate. As for blacks, the overwhelming majority approved of cumulative voting; 87% clumped all their votes on one candidate, and Bobby Agee was re-elected...
Back at 219, Johnny Melton offers a cordial handshake of goodbye. As a reporter picks her way out through the icy backyard, something catches her eye. It is a black doll, lying facedown, abandoned in the snow...
This much is certain: Harvard police officer Robert Kotowski and private citizen Joseph Angier have met before, and it wasn't cordial...