Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...requests, the Israeli government has in the light of this crisis permitted, and the United States agreed to, a renewed American presence in the peace negotiations. Hopefully, this will ensure that a bold and lasting and fair peace will hold in the Middle East, replacing the Knesset's unjust cordon sanitaire. But given the antinomian circumstance that Israel has established as the backdrop for these talks, it is a small wonder that Palestinians will look to Washington with something less that hope. If confidence is to be restored, the Jewish settlers on the West Bank must be held...
...most part, there doesn't seem to be any real difference in taste between the various chicken meals, be it barbecue, fried, lemon pepper, or cordon bleu...
...drop in sales because the best brands have been continuously on sale, with prices permanently lowered by 10%," says Roland Vella, who manages a Nicolas liquor store on the Rue Rambuteau in Paris. Instead of paying the usual $26.50 for a bottle of Mumm's top-of-the-line Cordon Rouge, Vella's customers can buy one for $23.70. Anticipating this year's 250th company anniversary, Moet & Chandon last year even offered two free champagne glasses to anyone who bought two bottles of medium-priced Brut Imperial. Less expensive brands are also being heavily discounted, with the result that sales...
...JACKAL FLASHED A WICKED smile as he ushered 38 invited guests into the red brick schoolhouse. Before the Nicaraguan government delegates could take in their surroundings in the muddy mountain town of El Zungano, the Jackal's band of former contra guerrillas closed around them in a tight cordon. Training automatic weapons on the hostages, the rightist rebels announced the price for freedom: dismissal of Sandinista army chief Humberto Ortega and top presidential aide Antonio Lacayo, viewed as too easy on the country's ousted Marxist rulers...
...University thinks of us as Asian, but the AAA is willing to cordon us off," said co-president Mona M. Patel '94. "If we're not represented by AAA, there seems to be a gap between what the University sees is going on and what we see going...