Word: exited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ershad's exit boosted hopes for democratic succession in a country whose political history has been written in blood. Though he vowed to run for the presidency again, legislators in his own Jatiya Party were resigning last week and even military loyalists encouraged him to go. Scandals, a tyrant's image and a 50% rise in oil prices since the Persian Gulf crisis broke out sealed his doom. Said one movement leader: "From government officers to ricksha pullers, all were out in the street. It was phenomenal." It will also be phenomenal if democracy manages to heal a country that...
Tower: "Northwest one-four-eight-two, if you're on 21 Center, exit that runway immediately, sir." Then came a shouted command from the tower: "Get off there!" Lovelace, busy at the controls, said later he did not hear his copilot tell the tower they were on the runway, or he would have "gone for the weeds," meaning roll off the runway and onto the grass...
Once the audience realizes that the door on stage left represents birth and the one on stage right represents death, the entrance and exit of characters acquires new urgency. Sam's (Anton Quist) departure is particularly effective. After the family has admired his fine soldier's uniform, he remarks, "Well, goodbye," and boldly--one might say blindly--marches through death's door...
...book-checkers that guard each exit of Harvard's libraries do not earn their keep. Each week, we flush thousands of dollars down the toilet paying a flock of well-mannered Cantabridgians to arch their necks at students passing by with their backpacks unzipped. It's as easy as pie to steal a book from these folks...
...arranged, Cardoen says, through "third parties," whom he does not name but who have been identified by one of his employees as Israelis. Rumors have been circulating for months in Washington and the Middle East that Israel provided cluster bombs and other military aid to Mengistu in exchange for exit visas for Ethiopian Jews. Jerusalem, however, vehemently denies any involvement in Cardoen's Ethiopian deal...