Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regime. Iran wants to build a $13 billion domestic communications system and aims to buy American hardware and engineering experience. Many European firms have already made bids for satellite contracts, but the Iranians extended the deadline in the hope that U.S.-based companies would be allowed to enter the fray...
...ending the fray is as much about staying out of the fray, explained one top Harvard official recently. If the Bok administration is remembered for its mediation skills, much of the credit, many say, must go to the lawyer behind the lawyer...
Harvard certainly has a wide range of views, and often this leads to the kind of intellectual confrontation that makes a university what it is. Traditionally, the Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats have stayed out of the fray, in order to avoid making campus issues into partisan ones. But the actions of one group on campus cannot go unchallenged...
...President is attempting to appear above the fray. In declaring military success, he stressed that this was "not a time to gloat." Yet even as Bush's victory address was being composed, his chief of staff, John Sununu, was meeting with the half a dozen top Republicans who help plot political strategy and are known informally as the Wednesday Group. The day after the speech, Sununu summoned Republican lawmakers to the White House to consider ways to link Bush's foreign success to his domestic policy...
...firms have prevailed as decisively as American troops did on the battlefield. Conspicuously absent from the fray: bidders from Japan and Germany, whose soldiers stayed home from the fighting (see box). Huddled in hotel rooms in Saudi Arabia with officials of Kuwait's government-in-exile, executives of U.S. companies have won 70% of initial awards for emergency services during the first three months of rebuilding. Such tasks as putting out oil fires and restoring water and power to blasted buildings could cost more than $500 million during this period. As part of the effort, Kuwait awarded the U.S. Army...