Word: marshaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jordan's stability is crucial to countries on both sides of the Arab-Israeli dispute. The King has brought in Field Marshal Sharif Zaid bin Shaker to oversee preparations for parliamentary elections in the near future, which should bring a degree of democracy to a largely authoritarian land. But whatever path the new government takes, the people face several more years of austerity. "Sooner or later, Jordanians will have to adjust to a lower standard of living," admitted a top adviser to the King. "There's no other...
...were brought to the federal courthouse in a van and taken to an small room only a few feet away from the courtroom where they had listened to testimony for eight weeks. Their room was further crowded with hundreds of exhibits, some still classified as top secret. A U.S. marshal guarded the door...
They lost the race for class marshal, they didn't even make class committee, and their busy, busy schedules have an extra hour a week they can devote to an impressive-sounding activity. Of course, it's all done for free, although that extra entry on the resume, something like, "Senior Gift fundraiser: ruthlessly solicited money from extremely unwilling classmates for the Greatest University in the World," is payment enough...
...undercover agent. One hunter remarks nervously, "If I were Blaien, I'd get after the guide that got him in trouble." Hearing this, Leach tells them, "Blaien's got his own problems," and notes that this is only part of a big federal bust. Ray Brite, a U.S. deputy marshal, eases the tension by telling awful jokes...
...including troop reductions and a cut in arms production by 19.5%, has rankled the security-preoccupied military. Two weeks ago a bimonthly military newspaper published a broadside blasting "pacifist calls to our countrymen asking irresponsibly for the Soviet Union unilaterally to 'turn swords into plowshares.' " The Kremlin quickly produced Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the former Chief of Staff, to pronounce his support for the cuts...