Word: formals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fears for Boeing's last major competitor, European plane-maker Airbus Industrie, which has been steadily losing market share to the American company. Calling his approval preliminary, EU antitrust chief Karel Van Miert said more time was needed to read the fine print of Boeing's offers before a formal go-ahead is issued. A green light is expected as early as next week. While the Europeans could not have blocked the merger, they could have prevented Boeing from setting up shop anywhere in the soon-to-be-enlarged Union, or fined the aviation giant as much as $4.8 billion...
SEOUL, South Korea: The prospect of reaching a formal peace treaty on the Korean peninsula took a major step backwards today after North Korean soldiers exchanged heavy gunfire with South Korean troops. North Korean officials said several of its soldiers were wounded in the shoot-out and accused the south of committing a "grave armed provocative act." South Korea, which reported no casualties, fired back, saying the skirmish was an "intentional provocation" by North Korea. South Korean military officials said its border guards discovered a small group of North Korean troops on the south side of the demilitarized zone...
Vice President Al Gore called J.P.L. shortly after the landing to congratulate the controllers. President Clinton issued a statement hailing the occasion in more formal tones. "Our return to Mars today," he declared, "marks the beginning of a new era in the nation's space-exploration program...
According to a professor in the political science department at UCLA, the idea was informally discussed at the end of a recent faculty meeting. Although there was no formal vote on the subject, there has been "a lot of rumor and innuendo," the professor said...
...recent Supreme Court ruling that Paula Jones could proceed with her sexual harassment case, President Clinton's lawyer Bob Bennett has abruptly changed course and come out swinging. Late Thursday he asked an Arkansas court to hold a conference to set a trial date and filed the first formal response to the suit, in which Clinton said he did not remember ever meeting Jones and denied her claim he harassed her during an Arkansas state economic conference. Covering all the legal bases, the filing said that even if Clinton did meet Jones at the Excelsior Hotel, as she claims...