Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three major avenues and herded towards the countryside under the watchful eyes of Khmer Rouge soldiers, many of whom were even younger than Lien. Residents left behind homes, businesses, restaurants, and cinemas, carrying away only the barest necessities: in Lien's case a blanket. In the chaos and crush that ensued, she and her brothers were separated from the rest of their family, and the three have not seen them or their hometown since...
...directed at the whole female sex. Rapists tend to view women with a mixture of reverence and resentment. They choose random women on whom to vent their roiling rage about mothers who mistreated them or women who rejected them. "I was angry with my wife for having a crush on my brother, and I was angry with the first girl I went out with when I was 17 who told me I wasn't assertive enough," said John, a rapist in the sex-offender program at Western State Hospital at Fort Steilacoom, Wash. "I felt judged by women...
...this: we're prepared to put into practice what the Carter Administration in its last year was beginning to formulate as policy." Reagan has put U.S. planes within snooping distance of Chad, but five years ago, President Carter provided Zaïre with fuel, medicine and equipment to crush a rebellion-cum-invasion there. It was the Carter Administration that promised to send an Army battalion to the Sinai peninsula to separate Israeli and Egyptian forces and encouraged the creation of a Rapid Deployment Force for quick dispatch to a possible Middle East skirmish; Reagan has simply executed those...
...personal stationery to order (use good graphics or a logo) and how to outfit the corporate jet (carry the latest quarterly report), Mazzei's approach is blunter and, at times, more realistic. His advice ranges from how a woman executive should deal with the office boy's crush ("Don't crush it") to how to handle people when taking over a new department ("Make no promises...
...does no good to argue that these wars failed to crush Polish or Argentine or Palestinian nationalism. A general's dreams are never the same as his intentions, which in these campaigns were more limited: to make possible things that were once thought impossible, to rearrange what the Soviets call the correlation of forces, to change the terms of reality, debate and thus ultimately negotiation. Far from excluding negotiations, a primary purpose of these wars was to alter their terms. When Jaruzelski talks to Walesa, Britain to Argentina, and Israel to the Palestinians, as in the long run they...