Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told the U.N., that he could present the guerrillas with a "new reality." Said Duarte: "The Salvadoran people now have no doubt that subversive violence has lost its mystique and reason for existence." He backed his assertion with the offer of an amnesty if the guerrillas agreed to lay down their arms and join the democratic process...
...important payoff for Duarte's meticulous groundwork was the reaction of rightist politicians and conservative businessmen in San Salvador. Declared the powerful National Association of Private Enterprise, a group that had long opposed Duarte's left-of-center economic policies: "If the Salvadoran terrorists lay down their arms and work in peace toward their objectives, they are welcome to work shoulder-to-shoulder in the country's electoral process...
...captors remained at large and announced two months later that they had put poisoned Ezaki Glico products in the nation's supermarkets. No tainted sweets were found, but authorities cleared shelves of all Ezaki Glico candy. The company lost at least $21 million and was forced to lay off 450 part-time workers. This time the losses could exceed $30 million...
...deferential on matters of strategy: "We wholeheartedly agree with your conception . . . We cordially accept your plan ..." Roosevelt urges relaxation: "Once a month I go to Hyde Park for four days, crawl into a hole and pull the hole in after me ... I wish you would try it ... Lay a few bricks or paint another picture...
...were cautious about letting their wheels go across the border between the Panama and U.S. zones because ".. . if you were involved in a traffic offense on the wrong side of the street, you would be judged in an American court." In contrast to the new towers of Panama City lay a sprawling slum called Hollywood; even remote villages had Walt Disney figures as roadside totems. Greene once grumbled to Torrijos, "Next time the students want to demonstrate .. . can't you tell them to burn all those Donald Ducks...