Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats, to solicit their support. Next morning, more than 100 members of the House mushed through a snowstorm to a White House breakfast at which the President pleaded for their backing. Said Bush: "The last, best chance for Saddam Hussein to get the message is in your hands." To counter pro-sanctions arguments, CIA Director William Webster sent a letter to the Hill asserting that even if the embargo remained in place for six months to a year, it would not force Iraq from Kuwait...
...mark of Van Dyck's style is its extraordinary refinement, a delicacy that runs counter to what English 17th century taste had come to expect from Holland: "robustious boistrous druncken headed imaginary Gods," as Charles I's agent in Brussels remarked when trying to decide on an artist from whom to commission a story of Cupid and Psyche...
...Texas seems to run counter to the rest of the country," a Houstonian told me last month. "Things are turning up. But do you know what made it really depressing around here until recently? It wasn't all the bankruptcies; it was that people weren't busy. Things are getting busy again. People feel a lot better...
...Ethiopia, when it turned Marxist in 1977. Somalia was at war with Ethiopia over the disputed Ogaden province, so Siad Barre reversed his allegiance and appealed to the U.S. Washington was happy to provide him with $100 million in military and economic aid annually in the mid-1980s to counter Moscow...
...Texas glassmaking mogul and owner of tracks in Kansas and New Mexico. Hubbard launched a proxy battle last November to gain control of the company's board and install new management, complaining that the company has lost $27 million in the past three years. Everett supporters like Merv Griffin counter that she has brought many innovations to the track, including simulcasting of events...