Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawsuit if Puerto Rico didn't agree. "We didn't want that," says an associate of Puerto Rico's governor. Rossello, at the time unaffiliated with either mainland political party, was on the verge of declaring himself a Democrat. Continues the associate: "He didn't want to offend Tyson frontally and get in a lawsuit with the Feds when he was trying to position himself closer to Clinton, who he knew was a good friend of Tyson's. We decided to drag it out, to fight a rearguard action through extended negotiations. We decided to talk...
...clout, forcing through the election of their candidate for party chairman and the adoption of a hard-right plank that gubernatorial candidate George W. Bush, the ex- President's son, will now have to run on. Wary moderates like Bush and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson were careful not to offend the rightists, who rolled over anybody in their way. When one centrist delegate argued that the party was not a church, she was roundly booed...
...promise to refine and use the oil domestically, so it will not upset the world petroleum market. The very idea of limited oil sales for Iraq is anathema to the U.S. But Washington will reluctantly go along with the Security Council plan because the U.S. does not want to offend Turkey, an important friend that allows American jets based on its soil to patrol Iraqi airspace. "Turkey is a good ally," says an American diplomat at the U.N. "We are sympathetic to Turkey's needs...
...whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth...
...alarmed. What you are about to read may offend you. But that isn't altogether tragic, since what you are about to read is an irreverent but hopefully comical satire of Harvard students--the types they come in and the mannerisms that characterize them...