Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exact mix of motives that prompted George Bush to launch the Somali intervention is still not altogether clear. The immediate causes were, of course, ghastly TV pictures of famine in that country and U.N. Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's pleas for help to get food past the guns of armed gangs into the hands of the starving in a country that had no real government and practically no order of any sort. In addition, Bush no doubt wanted to go out in a blaze of glory as a world statesman, and subordinates were glad that the move served...
...wanted to know what exact procedures were being followed because [reports in] The Harvard Crimson had taken us by surprise," said Assistant Professor of German Peter J. Burgard. "At today's meeting the issue was taken quite seriously and not just accepted as a decision that's been made...
...exact one of these paths remains to berecommended," says Buell, a member of the advisorycommittee. The advisory committee, chaired byProfessor of Philosophy Warren D. Goldfarb '69,expects to make its recommendation this spring...
...exact same setup. I unplugged minewhen it happened and took it apart...I was scaredcause it was right next to my bench," said MichaelI. Schwartz `96. "People were in shock fromhearing the explosion...
Purging is probably not the exact word either of them would use for it; minutes into Finley's first monologue, she is "bleeding and puking on your mauve living room" because she finds no other way of rousing us from our apathy: "hello America, no answer, hello society, no answer...no more comfort." References to the Rodney King riots, the Clarence Thomas trial and the William Kennedy affair back up her mournful claim that "this is the the age of reverse." Even in her more humorous moments, she refuses to compromise her political sensibility: "I want all girl bands...