Word: fait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Percy, a moderate Republican, lost a tight race to five-term Rep. Paul Simon. Fait polls showed Simon captured some 90 percent of the Illinois Black vote and two-thirds of the votes of those describing themselves as "liberals...
Although Feldstein has not yet publicly discussed any intention to keep or erase this unit, Marglin and many other faculty and teaching fellows are concerned that he may end it without warning. "[We] would like [such a desision] not to be a fait accompli, like the radical sections," Marglin said
Gemayel's visit to Damascus signals a Syrian fait accompli...
...York City Ballet. All of Broadway has its eye on this matchup of two tough-minded show-biz smoothies. So far Robbins has made only one suggestion: that the drop curtain be in the form of "His" and "Hers" bath towels. The sense of loss in Tharp's Fait Accompli has in part to do with the eventual prospect of retiring, and it will not be easy...
...cases, not only was the principle wrong, but the methods employed were sleazy and sneaky. Keyworth presented the center to Congress as a fait accompli, and the universities had congressmen--Charles Ruggle (D-N.Y.) and Norman Minuets (D-Ca.) respectively--slip an amendment into general authorization hearings just before the bill was sent to the president for signing...