Word: exited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peacemaking missions, yet none carried much promise of success. In Washington, President Bush toned down his rhetoric and turned his attention to diplomacy, but said bluntly that he had no immediate hope for "fruitful negotiations." Despite a gut sense that both sides might be looking for a peaceful exit from the crisis, neither seemed prepared to give way on its basic -- and irreconcilable -- demands. "It's a cat-and-mouse game," said British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd in a remark about Saddam's treatment of the hostages. "Now a little mercy, now some more ruthlessness...
...their banks. However, there is a tiny little catch, as an accompanying letter explains. The deposited check gives the task force the right to withdraw $12.50 a month from the individual's account for what it calls candidate escrow funding. Lucky recipients of the checks are allowed to exit the program after two payments have been extracted -- there goes the $25 -- but they are encouraged to remain participants and painlessly, perhaps endlessly, go on contributing $12.50 a month to the G.O.P...
...their outcry no doubt prompted President Mikhail Gorbachev to utter a veiled threat at his final press conference in Washington last week. If Israel did not halt Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, he warned, new thought would be given to "what we can do with issuing permits for exit." Israel and Washington balked, and three days later, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze assured the U.S. that emigration would continue apace...
...drenched in sweat, my shirt torn apart. My arms rendered quivering jelly from the abusive fist-pounding they have powered, my back and legs aching from the hours of standing and jumping without reprieve, I long for the relief that skipping classes the next day will bring me. I exit the arena proud of the permanent hearing damage I've sustained, relishing the ringing in my ears for days to come...
...casters, a file cabinet -- and a hospital bed where Poole must sleep each night. His food is brought to him daily by Mac, a burly man who can come and go as he pleases. Poole cannot; he has searched every square inch of the corridor outside and found no exit...