Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Free traders need an equally imaginative political strategy to ward off protectionism. Their policy has claimed some real victims, who can no longer be kept quiet by sermons about the greater good of the overall economy. Unfortunately, the sermonizers have been less than prolific with ideas about how to help the losers. The lead idea is retraining, but it would have to be conducted on a scale difficult to finance at a time of pinched federal budgets. The alternative, however, might be a protectionist spirit that keeps reviving, just as Frankenstein's monster kept coming back in movie sequel after...
...their sense of isolation grew worse, Saddam's daughters set up a campaign of their own. "They kept crying and pressuring their husbands," says the Jordanian security official. Receiving assurances from their mother in Baghdad, the women entreated their husbands to appeal for forgiveness. The wives swore on the Koran, "If you are killed, we will commit suicide." As the demands continued, Hussein Kamel became irritable and even violent. He fought constantly with other members of the defection party and last month was reportedly hospitalized for exhaustion...
...that the Crimson was losing or anything. Punishing kills by sophomore Ryan Oliver and senior Ryan Westendorf kept the first set even most of the way, until a Westendorf jump serve closed out the scoring...
...esprit are usually the first words one hears in conjunction with Oscar Wilde's plays, as if anything beyond that strains his talents. Naturally Wilde's frivolity is not devoid of substance, even though his lazy work habits allegedly kept his best work from ever being recorded. Victorian England's Rococo fop was not loathe to entertain a single meaningful thought--only, perhaps, to express it as such...
...that the situation has improved for the average female on the council. Our voices are heard more often, and we do command a great share of the seats on the student-faculty committees. However, if it has improved for women overall, the situation for the female executives has not kept pace...