Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compared to the contradictions dividing the Western allies. Those fault lines were evident again last week. Only a few days after France threatened to withdraw its 4,500 peacekeepers from Bosnia, French Defense Minister Francois Leotard argued for a more aggressive stance against the Bosnian Serbs. Military chiefs will gather in the Hague this week to devise ways to strengthen the U.N. presence -- even as their subordinates continue to draft plans for an evacuation...
...feel it is my duty to call an open meeting for the community to gather and discuss," Hanson said...
...Kaye, who runs the Hong Kong- based Asian Hedge Fund for private clients. According to Kaye, before Tianjin Bohai went public, it produced caustic soda ash, a valuable commodity in China. As soon as the firm got cash, it started lending it to other companies. From what I could gather, Chinese companies maintain a close relationship with the state enterprises from which they came and sometimes can be pressured into making loans and even donations to their old cronies. I'm also told that the Chinese consider it very impolite to turn down a request for financial assistance...
Sponsor and organizer Hoda Abou-Jamra, of the International Student Center at Northeastern University, said that she had encountered many obstacles in trying to gather support for the event...
...scattered ruminations on National Coming Out Day ("Those 'Happy Homos,'" Opinion, Oct. 18, 1994), David B. Lat mocks and belittles the sincere attempts of the Harvard lesbigay community to gather together in order to celebrate a common identity, and to share in that celebration with friends, neighbors and colleagues...