Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father asking to get her ears pierced, with boxes drawn for his yes or no answer--to which he added a box marked "maybe." When pressed for something new, she comes up with a story about her father bringing home a cat from Kansas that she had grown fond of during a vacation...
That would be all right with Sam, a wry and doleful man with a taste for irony. He's tired of swallowing invidious comparisons between his performance in office and his dad's--especially since he was never that fond of the old man. Besides, he has new business to attend to--the recovery of the long lost love of his adolescence, Pilar, whom the beautiful Elizabeth Pena invests with the most touching vulnerability...
British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind is fond of comparing the conflict over security to the "Chicken or the Egg" paradox. For Netanyahu, though, there is simply no disputing whether peace or security must come first. Netanyahu makes the compelling argument that the only peace that can ever be honored, the only "just and lasting peace" or "peace of the brave" is a peace that is premised first and foremost on security. If the previous government's philosophy was "peace is our only security," Netanyahu can be relied upon to demonstrate that Israeli hopes for peace depend upon security first...
...domestic successor to the KGB, also got busy on the phone and sent aides to calm down military units around the capital. The crisis eased, and the generals later denied any attempt to pressure the President, saying they had gone to Grachev's office only to bid him a fond farewell...
...well that war is so terrible, or one should get too fond of it." --ROBERT EDWARD...