Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anthony Bruno of Bergen Commercial, a larger financial institution in the same area, began phoning him at New Era. Bruno said he had heard good things about Sisler. He eventually asked the young man to become Bergen's vice president of credit-card operations--a swank job for anyone, let alone a 25-year-old college dropout. He would make $70,000 a year and have use of a company car. Sisler said...
More offbeat allegiances, too: One woman strolled around topless with a sign reading, "Let Our Bodies Speak"; a speaker claimed KPFA had broken the story of a UFO cover-up. Groups' representatives thrust leaflets at each other, signed each other's petitions and joined each other's mailing lists and donor rolls. Speakers who were black, Native American, Puerto Rican and gay, took the podium to tell the crowd how KPFA had spread the word for their movements when no one else could, or would. One woman shouted, "We're winning! And we're winning because of our unity...
...lived here his whole life, went to school here and understands the kids. I've done it," Harshbarger said. "I offer a viewpoint that is unique because I identify with some of the children. We have children who are struggling in the Cambridge School System and we can't let those kids fail...
...written to President Clinton warning of the "drift" in U.S. policy on Iraq, and urging that Saddam Hussein be given a new deadline for compliance with arms-control requirements or face a new round of intense bombing. Although air strikes on Iraq hardly make the paper any longer, let alone the front page, the U.S. and Britain have fired 1,100 missiles at 359 targets this year alone (and flown about 65 percent of the number of missions carried out during the Kosovo conflict). The low-key air war, which followed four days of intense bombing in response...
...verge of doing it when the Chechnya war began and again in 1996, and today his situation is more desperate than ever. He?s in bad shape physically, mentally and politically; he has no moral authority and the economy is still a disaster. He?ll let go of power only when can guarantee the safety of his family and himself, and he may decide that a state of emergency is his only option...