Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Strip and Jericho to the rest of the West Bank. Planned Palestinian elections are six months overdue, and Israel has yet to move any of its occupying troops out of the territory. After Beit Lid, Arafat also blamed Palestinian militants for the delays. Said he: ``Every time we get nearer to retrieving in our hands the West Bank and extending the national authority, a new problem surfaces...
...world. I'd grab my own blanket from the closet at the back of the room, and he'd make sure I had socks on my feet before he'd allow me to stay; after that, I was free to plop myself into one of the upholstered chairs nearer the television, or perhaps settle for the carpeting in front of the coffee table...
...fire on the upper floors, but claiming no casualties as Chechen officials kept to the basement and first floor. (Chechnya's president, Dzhokhar Dudayev, reportedly is concealed in a bunker elsewhere.) TIME Moscow bureau chief John Kohan says the action by the Russian military -- who are no nearer to containing the crisis -- suggests Yeltsin's authority is in jeopardy. "There are serious questions that have to be raised when the commander-in-chief gives an order and it's disobeyed," Kohan says. "One has the sense in general that this is a war in which they've broken every single...
...Evangelists for school choice don't want the public school system to get better; they want it to get worse, as a prelude to getting out of it and into private schools. To them the push for prayer is like asking the band of the Titanic to strike up Nearer, My God, to Thee...
Both sides wielded colorful signs, jostling each other to crowd nearer the TV cameras...