Word: impressment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Australia's military aid to Indonesia and resumption of aid to Viet Nam. Indeed, Hawke's main purpose in coming to Washington was clearly to reaffirm the close political and security links that have governed relations between the U.S. and Australia for decades. He also wanted to impress upon Reagan the extent to which Australia's recovery from its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression depends on U.S. economic policy. He apparently succeeded. Said a U.S. business leader: "He's deft, tough and a man of considerable substance...
...very warm for someone with so much talent," Velona says. "She has no intention of trying to impress you or show off. She's rather spend an afternoon telling you how great...
...teaching hospital, "minor levels of contamination resulted when researchers were not properly checking their hands," Johnson notes. When such cases occur, Johnson's unit corrects the problem and delivers "a stirring lecture to impress on the person the hazards involved and to tell him to check his hands daily with a geiger counter...
When Johnson spots a case of contamination, he delivers "a stirring lecture to impress on the person the hazards involved and to tell him to check his hands daily with a geiger counter...
...latest buzzword in Washington. By symmetry Administration policymakers mean doing to the Sandinistas what the Sandinistas are doing to the government of El Salvador, namely backing a group of insurgents aimed at its overthrow. Some U.S. officials are convinced of the need to harass the Nicaraguans in order to impress upon them the notion that they cannot export revolution with impunity. Symmetry could come to imply that the Sandinistas may have to negotiate a political accommodation with the contras along the lines of the negotiated power sharing that some leftists in El Salvador are seeking. Some U.S. officials would like...