Word: intendant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were several KGB agents skulking around the Frankfurt Book Fair recently? Like everybody else, they were looking for deals. The Soviet spymasters are conducting one of the most extraordinary auctions in history. To raise hard cash, they intend to sell large portions of their secret archives, according to the Nov. 4 issue of the weekly New York Observer. The files may contain answers to some of the most intriguing questions of the cold war era: How close did the U.S. and the Soviet Union come to war over Cuba? Were the Rosenbergs really Soviet spies? One problem will...
Many candidates said they intend to use the weekend to make a final appeal to voters. Some candidates said they are organizing "visibilities"--gatherings of sign-holding supporters at busy intersections--instead of more traditional mailings to build candidate name recognition...
Almost weekly now, either publicly or privately, Bush sends a message to Saddam Hussein to live by the truce signed last March. "I intend to see that he abides by every one of those U.N. resolutions," Bush tells his staff. The President is unwavering in his belief that the time has come for the U.S. to assert its interests in the Middle East, even when it means opposing Israel...
...hostile or offensive environment. Charles Looney, regional director of the EEOC New England office in Boston, says the courts are more concerned with the woman's reaction than the man's intent. "If I run a stop sign, I have broken the law even if I did not intend to," he says. "People can create hostile environments without knowing that it would be considered sexual harassment, but they are still liable...
...Administration went much further last week, not by using stronger language but by breaking one of the oldest taboos in Washington's patron relationship with Jerusalem; it used money as a cudgel. After two fruitless days in Jerusalem, Secretary of State James Baker made clear that Washington did not intend to grant Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir the full $10 billion in loan guarantees he has requested to help accommodate an expected 1 million Soviet Jewish emigres. More important, Baker implied that the U.S. would not grant the Israelis any loan guarantees unless Jerusalem agreed to freeze settlement in the occupied...