Word: guarantor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cutting arms shipments to Nicaragua's freedom fighters . . . the national Democratic party has now become, with Moscow, co-guarantor of the Brezhnev doctrine in Central America...
...gambling that victory by Freitas do Amaral would strengthen his minority government. After last week's balloting, the Prime Minister was conciliatory. Said he: "I intend to continue to consult with the President. I will not create problems." Soares responded in kind, noting that "the President is the guarantor, the moderator, not the governor." Indeed, his new role seemed tailor made for the durable Socialist leader who has long been more of a consensus builder than an ideologue...
Celebrity status, as the checkout-counter newspapers constantly remind us, is no guarantor of happiness or security. Schickel reels off the familiar tragedies of those who found there was no room at the top: John Belushi, Freddie Prinze, Dylan Thomas, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe. Yet some of the deceased, like proper legends, have regained their power in death. Humphrey Bogart is a greater celebrity now than when he was alive; so is John Lennon. The fade-out has become as important in life as onscreen; no wonder Hollywood repartee has become standardized: "Elvis Presley is dead." "Good career move...
...people you want are the very people who are booked up years in advance," according to Dreben, it takes at least six weeks to convene an ad hoc committee. But Dreben adds that he is constantly amazed that the process runs so smoothly and defends it as a principle guarantor of the quality of Harvard's Faculty...
Half an hour after the attack, a Milan radio station received an anonymous phone call. "This is the Fighting Communist Party," said a man with a thick Roman accent. "We must claim the attempt on General Hunt, the guarantor of the Camp David agreements...