Word: exit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gradually the hostility turns to neutrality and then to respect--but not support. Too much is at stake, explain several people as they exit. "We can't waste our votes and help the Communists," says one. "We'll have to go with Yeltsin...
Your Senate leave taking provided that most satisfying of political moments, when the words are as big as the event. Forget the June departure date, leave now and for good. You made a dramatic exit. To go back in the next three weeks and haggle is to blur the picture and confuse the public. Don't step on your own applause line: it's over, the tie is off, go West...
...self-conscious, self-critical Western Canon provides a level of intellectual fulfillment that is not to be surpassed, and should not be neglected. Should one leave here without knowing his Shakespeare, his Bible, his Dickens, his Melville, his Emerson, his Twain, his Chaucer, his Dante? Given these criteria for exit, I certainly couldn't leave here now, but perhaps when I do, I will be closer to ready...
Peres needed to find an exit from Lebanon before stalemate became disaster, and he was looking to the Americans to provide it. The U.S. recognized that Grapes of Wrath seemed out of proportion to the attacks that provoked it; though Hizballah had fired missiles at civilians in the preceding weeks, they killed no one. Yet even when Israeli artillery destroyed a U.N. outpost near Qana that sheltered Lebanese refugees, killing 109 people, Clinton and his aides refused to condemn Israel. To Clinton, Peres is the keystone for Israel's effort to reconcile with its Arab neighbors. And as such...
...than 1,000 foreigners to neighboring countries. To step up the rescue operation, the Pentagon dispatched some 4,000 troops, including Marines, from the Mediterranean to the West African coast aboard a five-ship flotilla. The mission, however, is limited to evacuating Americans and other foreigners. Liberians have no exit from the ring of hell that surrounds them...