Word: occasionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sharon took much of the criticism, from Israelis and the world at large, for the savagery of the assault on West Beirut, although many of his policies had been quietly endorsed by Begin. At a meeting of intimates, Sharon boasted: "I have the survivability of a superpower. No criticisms or...
It was the sort of week that served perfectly to concentrate the minds of bankers and finance ministers. The occasion was the 37th annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Toronto, and while none of the moneymen faced the immediate prospect of hanging, a few...
"This is a historic occasion," proclaimed Securities and Exchange Commissioner Barbara Thomas. "What we have done is got the Swiss to cooperate with us to help fight insider trading and preserve the integrity of international banking. I'm elated."
"Free Walesa, or make it possible for him to speak as a free man." When Archbishop Jozef Glemp uttered those words from a balcony of the medieval monastery at Czestochowa last week, more than 350,000 worshipers burst into prolonged cheers and applause, many of them raising their hands in...
The archbishop has always sought to be a pastor as well as a bureaucrat. A few years ago, he began awakening at 6 a.m. instead of 7 a.m. in order to get in an extra hour of prayer. On one occasion a friend phoned him in the middle of the...