Word: kept
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...diplomatic solution includes "putting a few more people on the ground from NATO to make sure the peace is kept, then I'm for it," said House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.)on ABC's "This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts." "This is the new world we are in: We are peace-keepers, and we have to help the world do that...
...task wasn't an easy one, and though the press might sometimes have wished for more revealing answers, Mike managed to preserve his dignity in a situation fraught with scandal. When probed for details, McCurry often pled ignorance, saying the President's lawyers have "kept me in a position to be honest when I say I don't have any information." Mike chose not to know, and in that way he may have been more attuned to the American people than the reporters digging for dirt. He protected us with his ignorance; he made me feel...
...behavior following his discovery that his friend Jeremy Strohmeyer had molested and murdered a seven-year-old girl in a rest-room stall in a casino at the California-Nevada border [LAW, Sept. 7]. Granted, Cash is not legally responsible, according to current Nevada and California law, because he kept the knowledge of the occurrence to himself. But why can't he be held accountable for entering a women's rest room and peering over a toilet stall? Does this mean that any male can walk into a women's rest room and engage in voyeurism with impunity? PATRICK IVERS...
Campolo told TIME that he thought their counsel would be kept confidential and he would have "preferred" it that way; MacDonald said the same through a spokesman. But that did not stop MacDonald from announcing his expanded role in his Sunday sermon and Campolo from posting a statement on the Internet after a reporter called with questions. Nor did it deter the White House from confirming the information, although communications director Ann Lewis insists "my direction was that the pastoral counseling was private and personal and that we were not to release information." Wogaman gave only a short statement extolling...
...fast. Emerging as a leading black anti-Nixon spokesman," presidential counsel John Dean noted next to Conyers' name. In May 1972, Conyers introduced a resolution on the House floor demanding that Nixon be removed from office for his conduct of the Vietnam War. The measure went nowhere, but Conyers kept at it for the next two years, and when the Judiciary Committee finally voted in favor of impeaching Nixon, Conyers relished his vindication. "Impeachment is difficult, and it is painful," Conyers said at the time, "but the courage to do what must be done is the price of remaining free...