Word: hiatuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Washington, any delay in reaching agreement on a cease-fire would postpone a cutback of U.S. naval forces escorting oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. The Reagan Administration would also be forced to defer its efforts to forge a new relationship with Iran after a hiatus of nearly a decade. Last week Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of Iran's parliament, raised that prospect and a good deal more: the possibility of securing Iran's help in gaining the release of nine American hostages believed held by pro-Iranian factions in Lebanon...
...recently admitted. "We pushed those who could have been neutral into hostility." Tehran has begun trying to re-establish some of its old ties. In June, after intervening on behalf of three French hostages being held in Lebanon, Iran resumed normal relations with Paris, ending nearly a year's hiatus. Last week the country quietly restored diplomatic ties with Canada, severed in 1980, after dropping a demand that Ottawa apologize for hiding six American diplomats following the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Few steps would give this friendliness campaign greater impetus than a move by Iran...
...Mars, long the stuff of science fiction, now appears to be just a matter of time. The mystic planet, glowing red and ever brighter in the night skies, is heading toward its closest approach to the earth in 17 years this September, tantalizingly near and beckoning. After a hiatus of a dozen years, during which neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union mounted missions to & Mars, a spacecraft is once again on its way, opening a new era in the exploration of the earth's closest planetary neighbor. During the next decade or so, the Soviets will launch a series...
...unlikely that the U.S. was prepared to pay as high a price as France did in negotiating the release earlier this month of its three remaining hostages in Lebanon. Last week newly installed Socialist Premier Michel Rocard announced that Paris was re-establishing diplomatic relations with Tehran after a hiatus of ten months, a move promised by ex-Premier Jacques Chirac's government in exchange for Iran's help in freeing the French captives. In addition, the agreement allegedly called for France to repay as much as $1 billion on an outstanding loan made by Iran. While refusing to confirm...
...above is a purely hypothetical example from pro basketball, but in the world of collegiate hockey four years ago, something like this happened. When the ECAC-Hockey East split occurred, the greatest rivalry in the East--Cornell versus Boston University--went on hiatus...