Word: outset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carried to unreal extremes: American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution. Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset...
...refers specifically to mononucleosis as a disease which takes a long time to positively identify, even though it may make a student feel a little sick at the outset...
...original Planning Office estimate, theletter states, was based upon what it calls"conventional financing schemes." But theactivists claim in their letter that through someinnovative financing plans, their proposal isfinancially feasible. By raising $1.5 million fromthe outset, borrowing subsidized state and federalhousing loans, and getting some labor andarchitectural costs donated, they think they cansignificantly lower the cost of their development...
...country's historic experiment in what the French call cohabitation. This refers to the power sharing that will now ensue between Mitterrand and France's resurgent conservatives, led by Chirac's neo-Gaullist R.P.R. and former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Union for French Democracy. At the outset, some observers feared that the odd coupling, a direct result of the March 16 parliamentary elections that gave the conservative coalition a narrow parliamentary majority, would produce only paralysis and instability. To others, it promised to usher in a new age of pragmatism, cooperation and maturity in French politics...
...light of the surprise revolt, it was not clear precisely what Habib had accomplished during his hectic meetings with Marcos, Aquino and church leaders. From the outset, however, his mission had been hampered by a presidential gaffe that had aroused suspicion on both sides. Though nearly all election-day reports of vote fraud involved Marcos supporters, Reagan offhandedly told a news conference on Feb. 11 that abuse might have occurred on both sides. A few days later the White House reversed itself, issuing a statement that blamed Marcos for the irregularities...