Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oslo accords require him to do so, Netanyahu says he will refuse to talk to the Palestinians about the future of Jerusalem. He so vituperatively--and unfairly--accused Peres of threatening to divide Jerusalem that he has cut off any maneuvering room. He also pledges to close down Orient House, the P.L.O. headquarters in East Jerusalem, even though the Labor government gave a written assurance, as a secret adjunct to the first Oslo accord, that the office could continue functioning...
...mild mannered, and they are drawn to big, bold-relief political views such as the idea that taxation is theft or that abortion is murder. Lifers are conservative in the more literal sense of the word--they're not temperamentally disposed toward radical change. They have chosen to orient their life toward steadiness, loyalty and teamwork, so they put a high value on those qualities. Talents brag about wanting to destroy the system; Lifers like systems...
...easy for Americans to project their own problems onto some distant Other, in this case the perennially "exotic" Orient. The press gushed over Hillary Clinton's "courage" in denouncing Chinese violations of women's rights. But what risk was she facing, other than, perhaps, a curtailment of room service in her Beijing hotel? The politically risky--and truly courageous--thing would have been for Hillary to follow up her criticisms of China with some heartfelt reflections on the situation of women in America, herself included. She might have admitted she comes from the only industrialized nation that has refused...
...instance, Coleman suffered a fall as they headed toward the ferry stop at Orient Point, Long Island...
...boom that swept the rest of Asia during the 1980s. When the government announced an economic- reform program in 1989, Hanoi stood out as a place with relatively little industry and few cars, clean air and no traffic. Though neglected, architectural gems like the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient and the former Bank of Indochina were resurrectable. ``For anyone interested in architectural questions, Hanoi is where the action is because there has been this palimpsest of time,'' says John Stubbs, program director of the World Monuments Fund. ``The Vietnamese can possibly learn from others' mistakes...