Word: meres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such attacks remain mere distractions from the doorman's primary preoccupation: seeing whether the documents he recovered from the shredding room will lead to further restitution to Holocaust victims. Jewish groups estimate that some $7 billion in assets and interest is still held in numbered Swiss accounts. As well-wishers swarm about him after his speech in California, Meili smiles shyly and shakes his head. "We don't know what will be the outcome of the story," he says. For the righteous gentile, there may be mercies. But for a man forced to give up his country, there...
Clinton knew that both India and Pakistan were resisting the treaty. But treaty men are hardly deterred by such realities. The mere act of signing by the big powers and others, Clinton told the U.N. General Assembly, "will immediately create an international norm against nuclear testing, even before the treaty formally enters into force...
...eminent power in the world. And we've had it for a half-century. No wonder our elites are so bored with it, so enamored of treaties and conventions and all manner of devices that bind the world into a community of exemplary self-restraint, so contemptuous of mere striving for power and so shocked when that atavistic urge explodes in India, taking their cozy little illusions with...
...Xanadu, but it's business service as usual at Hotel Phoenix in Singapore after its recent $7.6 million renovation. Not only did the makeover boost the business hotel's ranking from 3 1/2 to four stars last year, but for the additional comforts, guests are now paying a mere $87, about $20 less than they were paying a year ago. "It's a matter of repositioning and offering true value for money," says Margaret Low, the hotel's marketing director...
...Microsoft, it's a bitterly phyrric victory. Windows 98 will ship on June 15, and the marketing blitz will be launched ten days later. But a mere three months of sales down the road, Redmond gets hauled before the judge -- potentially, to get its browser ripped out for good. "This is a very fast track," says antitrust law expert William Kovacic. "For a monopoly case, the time to trial is routinely a minimum of two to three years." William Neukom and the rest of Redmond's legal team had better put the coffee...