Word: granted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hauser's colleagues lauded the decision to grant him tenure...
...believe she is finally about to sleep for a few hours in a row. I believe this in my heart. Lord, You can do it, if only You will walk across the lake and grant this little girl a little rest...
...need the money. If that's you, convert this year while the taxman is running a Roth special: you get to spread the tax liability over four years. But if you're near retirement and lean toward bonds or CDs, converting may be a bad idea. Analysis by accountants Grant Thornton shows that a couple in the 28% tax bracket ('98 income between $42,350 and $102,300) will need 22 years to come out ahead, assuming some state tax, a 15% federal-tax bracket in retirement and 6% average annual returns...
...rejoin the Conservatives, after a spell when he had been out of Parliament altogether. The Conservative Prime Minister appointed Churchill Chancellor of the Exchequer, but when he returned the country to the gold standard, it proved financially disastrous, and he further weakened his political position by opposing measures to grant India limited self-government. He resigned office in 1931 and entered what appeared to be a terminal political decline...
Khomeini was clearly at home with populist demagogy. He taunted the Shah for his ties with Israel, warning that the Jews were seeking to take over Iran. He denounced as non-Islamic a bill to grant the vote to women. He called a proposal to permit American servicemen based in Iran to be tried in U.S. military courts "a document for Iran's enslavement." In 1964 he was banished by the Shah to Turkey, then was permitted to relocate in the Shi'ite holy city of An Najaf in Iraq. But the Shah erred in thinking Khomeini would be forgotten...