Word: neutralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arbitration tribunal meeting at The Hague. (Iran is pledged to replenish this fund so as to keep a minimum balance of $500 million.) It is to this body that U.S. companies must now submit their claims against Iran. The tribunal, comprising three Iranians, three Americans and three neutral arbitrators, met at The Hague last week to set up ground rules, but will not begin processing claims until October...
...Torture, exile under brutal conditions, harsh emigration restrictions, disappearances and other abuses are reprehensible whether committed by friend, foe or neutral." I also said that human freedom and dignity today are most seriously violated by the Soviet Union...
...armed forces. The owlish, 48-year-old economist had launched a belated bid to shore up his presidency by soliciting support from generals who applauded his frequent front line tours in the war with Iraq. But the military, wary of the risks of political involvement, chose to remain neutral...
...early 1970s, Lichtenstein was fond of quoting Matisse, that supreme artificer of images denoting calm and luxurious revery. Run through Lichtenstein's mill, however, the images lost this aura entirely, becoming stark, neutral or even disagreeable. The three fish in Still Life with Goldfish, 1972, a broad transcription from one of Matisse's still lifes of 60 years before, wear dyspeptic expressions and seem not at all pleased with the painting of a giant Lichtenstein golf ball on the wall behind them...
Last week's arbitration proceedings began at a snail's pace. The first order of business was to choose the panel's three neutral members. Led by Lawyer and veteran Negotiator George Aldrich, the U.S. team put forward several names. But the Iranian delegates, led by Spokesman Seyyed Hossein Enayat, initially made no suggestions at all; thus the selection process seemed certain to continue into this week. Iranian foot dragging only complicated an already knotty set of problems. For one thing, there is a staggering total of more than 2,000 American claims to process. Another hitch...