Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After an eight-month study, an Army commission has proposed that the wording of the code be changed to "nor tolerate such acts by other cadets." The aim is still to condemn the foul deed, but now also to keep a more open mind toward the individual who committed it. This would give the cadet honor boards greater leeway in deciding punishment and thus enable an offender to remain at the Point with a chance to prove himself. Although the academy superintendent has long had less dire options, expulsion has been the usual fate...
Despite the government's assurances that it will continue to keep its doors open to the outside world, foreign trade -- $82.6 billion in 1988 -- can be expected to slide steeply in the next few months. Though China may want to trade, will anyone want to trade with China? As foreigners have fled the country, joint ventures with Western and Japanese firms are frozen. Even before the protests erupted, inflation, corruption and unemployment had put a brake on progress; hesitation by outsiders to invest in China will only exacerbate these problems. Said a senior British diplomat: "First, there is the revulsion...
Foley is not letting personal attacks on him keep the House from cleaning up its mess; his first joint act with Michel was to ask for a tough ethics-reform package. Investigating Congressmen who abuse the public trust is the proper business of the House. Mudslinging...
...been known as Kampuchea, became Cambodia again. That was the fifth time in the past 20 years that the country has changed its name. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian resistance leader who is notorious for his own shifting stance on his country, has at least found a way to keep up with its changing names. When he speaks English, he calls the country Cambodia. When he speaks Khmer, he calls it Kampuchea. When he speaks French, he refers to it as Cambodge...
Gorbachev acknowledged the violence in sessions of the Congress, the latest outbursts in a growing litany that many conservatives blame on his tolerant governing style. Said the Soviet leader: "Let us again issue an appeal to keep the peace. Please stop and let us trust the legal organs of the country to do everything to protect the lives of the people...