Word: letup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, despite Jackson's mission and quieter diplomatic peace overtures by the Russians, there was no letup in NATO's air war. Last week the Pentagon announced that 10 additional B-52 heavy bombers would join several others launching attacks against Yugoslavia. The additional bombers will add 500-lb. iron bombs for attacks on troop concentrations, as well as precision-guided, Israeli-made missiles that carry 1,000-lb. warheads. Meanwhile, about 12 hours before word of the release reached Washington, Clinton imposed a U.S. trade embargo on the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, intent on choking off the supply...
Incessant rain made the Tigers' Clarke Field unplayable, and with no letup in sight, league officials switched the games to a neutral location, New Haven's Yale Field, and slated them for tomorrow and Wednesday...
Second, the tradition of maintaining independence. Our ancestors always regarded the spirit of maintaining independence as the foundation of a nation. China has all along maintained its cultural tradition without letup in the history of several thousand years. In modern times, the frequent bullying and humiliation by imperialist powers once weakened China. However, after 100 years of struggle, China has stood up again as a giant. This fully testifies to the indestructible strength of the spirit of the Chinese people. Today, in finding a road to development suited to us, we will proceed from our own national conditions to address...
...anything but perjury; and last week Tyson testified for a third day before a grand jury. Smaltz's next targets? The likeliest include Tyson Foods, company spokesman Archie Schaffer, lobbyist Jack Williams (in a new indictment) and of course Espy. Attorneys for those parties say they expect no letup from the man who has given his staff watches that bear his name, the independent-counsel seal and the words IN RE MICHAEL ESPY...
...Viking; 923 pages; $39.95), by Orlando Figes, a historian at Trinity College, Cambridge, deals vividly with starvation, disease, tribal hatreds, sociopathic blood lust, religious mania, governmental terrorism and most other sources of human misery. But the author's predominant diagnosis of what went wrong, on all sides and without letup, is that stupidity ruled--quite literally in the case of the last Czar, Nicholas II (who comes across here as dull-minded and weak), and his wife Alexandra (dull-minded and forceful). At a time when Russia might have been transformed by shrewd and humane reforms into a parliamentary democracy...