Word: key
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hezb, which has gained a reputation for strong-arm tactics, dismissed the incident as local feuding, some Jamiat members called for immediate revenge -- even if it risked jeopardizing the plans of their military commander, Ahmad Shah Massoud, for a late-summer offensive. Most, however, cautioned restraint. The loss of key lieutenants in the ambush was already a major setback to Massoud's efforts to transform his guerrilla force into a more conventional army capable of cracking government defenses...
...electronic skills have been tested regularly while performing Rule Number Two: never leave the house without turning on the alarm system. Why a home with one key would have three keys for an alarm system defies logic, but I was willing to go along with...
...reaching an almost unequivocal decision in the complex case, Allen dismissed a key Paramount claim, that Time's directors had put the company up for sale in March when they originally agreed to acquire Warner. If that had been found to be true, Time would have been obligated under Delaware law to seek the maximum immediate return to shareholders by auctioning the company to the highest bidder. Paramount's argument that Time's directors were selling the company to Warner rested partly on the fact that the exchange ratio of the proposed stock swap would have given Warner stockholders...
White right wingers called Botha a "traitor" for sitting down with a man they consider a terrorist. White liberals felt confirmed in their belief that Mandela and his organization, the outlawed African National Congress, hold the key to successful negotiations between blacks and whites. But Mandela had not informed the A.N.C., his family or anyone else about the meeting, and black activists were shocked and confused when they learned of it. For years they have refused to consider or tolerate any contact with the government, demanding that it first release Mandela, legalize the A.N.C. and end the state of emergency...
...technological wonders, the artificial union of sperm and ovum to form a zygote, which is then frozen for eventual implantation in a woman's womb, has gone from the near miraculous to the almost mundane -- and ultimately to the moral dilemma. One current legal case addresses two of the key ethical questions raised by in vitro technology: Who should exercise primary rights over the frozen embryo? And what rights, if any, does the embryo have...