Word: deal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fathers are an integral--and often missing--part of urban and inner-city families, five experts who deal with the problem of family breakdown told an audience of nearly 100 at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum last night...
...result, according to some first-years, was a good deal of confusion at Adams and a large number of people forced to trek back to Annenberg or eat at other River Houses...
...important thing against Holy Cross is to score first," Meagher said. "We tend to lose a great deal of confidence if the other team scores first, especially if it is in the latter stages of the game...
...gets set to choose a new president on Wednesday, tension over the outcome is increasing, with the legislative building surrounded by angry demonstrators. "None of the three front-runners commands a majority in the assembly, and that has laid the process open to precisely the kind of Byzantine backroom deal-making that has enraged the protestors outside," says TIME Asia reporter Nisid Hajari...
...hard to pick a winner. Opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri polled the most votes in June?s election ? and her legions of protesting supporters have vowed to launch a revolution if she is denied the presidency ? but she has declined to get involved in the behind-closed-doors deal-making. "Even her own supporters complain privately of her reluctance to dirty her hands," says Hajari. In fact, it?s precisely Megawati?s populist inclination that has the country?s traditional elites ganging up to find a way to keep her out. One way may be to elect Abdurrahman Wahid, better known...