Word: flinch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Miyazawa, standing nearby, didn't flinch. As expected, he suggested that a piece of his government's recent $116 billion stimulus package would end up paying for American-made goods (Clinton seemed underwhelmed), but he stood firm against "managed trade." Whether or not the two leaders really thought they could reduce America's $49 billion trade deficit with Japan harmoniously, they did promise to come up with a detailed plan to do so within three months. Of course, with the troubles Miyazawa's party is having at home, he may not be around that long...
...unbelievable," Stovell said. "We were all pressed up against the fence along with the crowd shouting at [Chung], and he didn't flinch...
...society stems largely from the failures of corrupt and ineffectual secular governments to give burgeoning urban populations the jobs, housing and basic services they need. Most of the faithful are looking for justice at home, not war abroad. Yet many who decry the ills of the modern world would flinch at imposing religious rule by violent means. "The most important thing to remember is that not all Islamic revivalist movements are fundamentalist, that not all fundamentalists are political activists, and that not all political activists are radicals," says Mumtaz Ahmad, a Pakistani professor of political science at Hampton University...
Inevitably, an unwitting house tutor pipes up, "So, how's the thesis going?" United, all seniors at table flinch as if in great physical pain and banish tutor from table. Conversation returns to previous night's dinner conversation: gossip about who's asked whom to the senior soiree...
There is not a flinch or a scruple when Milosevic talks -- which is how he continues to pursue his dream against a rising tide of international opprobrium and opposition in Serbia. In his view, it is neither the thundering artillery of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army nor the process of "ethnic cleansing" of Serbian regions in Croatia and Bosnia that has earned him the world's outrage. "Vested interests are behind this, and of course a very well-organized and well-paid media war," he says. "Today in Europe it is normal for the Vatican or Austria and Germany...