Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Officials in the capital of Tashkent turned a blind eye to the growing power of the Islamic revivalists in Namangan, until they openly challenged the authority of President Islam Karimov. Last month police sealed off the city and whisked at least 80 activists away to prisons outside the region, deeply offending city residents. An enraged party member in Moscow warned, "A revolution is imminent. We have learned something from the Algerian experience...
This is not to say the economy is headed for trouble. The recession ended on Feb. 25 (the day I bought a brand-new Chrysler LeBaron convertible), and there's reason to think business may boom in the year ahead (I have my eye on a new computer). But while that's good news for Main Street, it's almost surely already been discounted by the market. Could stocks have climbed so high without expectations the recession would end? And it also means interest rates may one day edge back...
...bomb was planted, Pan Am's lawyers hired Interfor, Inc., a New York City firm specializing in international intelligence and security. If it hadn't been for the government's implausible plottings revealed during the Iran-contra hearings, Interfor's findings might be dismissed as a private eye's imagination run amuck -- especially considering the controversial background of the company's president, Juval Aviv...
...through al-Kassar's efforts, or so he claimed, that two French hostages were released from Lebanon in 1986 in exchange for an arms shipment to Iran. The deal caught the eye of a freewheeling CIA unit code-named COREA, based in Wiesbaden, Germany. This special unit was reported to be trafficking in drugs and arms in order to gain access to terrorist groups...
...forum was great because it shows thatpeople who are in the public eye are concernedabout environmental issues," said Brett R. Huff'93, who helped Becker with the organization ofEarth...