Word: honors
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President Ernesto Zedillo, just seven weeks in office, signed a pact with the main opposition parties to deliver reformed federal and state voting laws and to honor the results of all free and fair elections. According to opposition leaders, the signers agreed privately to hold new balloting in the unruly southern states of Tabasco and Chiapas, where widespread fraud was reported in last year's elections. In Washington the Clinton Administration's proposed $40 billion bailout of the weakened peso met with stiff opposition from Democrats...
...University attempts to make its helpers happy by doing things to make them feel appreciated. Some of them are invited to events held to honor donors of large gifts...
Unless you happen to be a tribal elder with a taste for geological metaphors. To the old chief, Tristan is the rock everyone "broke themselves against," and a good thing too, since from their suffering he gains "his honor and a long life." Swell, but we're left with our stifled laughter and a very long movie...
...DOWNTOWN Manhattan is swarming with reporters, cameramen, Internet bohemians and online celebrities, people with handles like "Mnemonic," "Razor" and "Garbled Uplink." The center of attention -- a fashionably wan, cigarette-smoking ex-con known as Phiber Optik -- shows up an hour late, even though the party is in his honor. Phiberphest '95, they're calling it. Onstage is a band called Foamola, consisting of a bald male organist, a homeless man playing what appear to be a pair of rocks and a female vocalist who yowls, "When I read a book, I always read Balzac!/ When I take a drug...
Betty Shabazz thought it was her business. A family friend explains that she has always believed the Nation killed Malcolm, while the FBI declined to interfere. Asked on a WNBC television program whether Farrakhan was involved, she answered, "Yes. Nobody kept it a secret. It was a badge of honor. Everybody talked about it." In June, Farrakhan and Shabazz appeared on the same stage at a leadership summit in Baltimore; but they did not exchange words, and Shabazz's remarks were noticeably cold. Asked recently whether she stood by her WNBC statement, she replied that she had not changed...