Word: pave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rapidly modernizing power that wants to join the World Trade Organization, the conference designed to pave the way turned instead into a public relations mudhole. As for what delegates themselves hoped to achieve, the one-fifth of their Platform for Action that dealt with such issues as reproductive freedoms, gay rights and sex education remained under debate when the Huairou conference ended Friday. Bride burning, female infanticide, rape and economic discrimination came in for round condemnation, but how and to what extent a call to action might end those practices remained in doubt...
...aside the offer of an olive branch. Under a conference sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church in Rome two months ago, the F.I.S. actually agreed to renounce violence. But fearful that the plan's provision for lifting the ban on the F.I.S. and barring the army from politics would pave the way for an Islamic republic, government hard-liners rejected the proposal, condemning the conference participants for "washing Algeria's dirty linen abroad...
Geraigery and other citizens say they fear the end of rent control may pave the way for massive changes in East Cambridge by encouraging developers to build more expensive condominium projects...
...tournament's results show, the Crimson had a strong freshman contingent this year--one that could pave the way to a brighter future for Harvard wrestling...
...bill does not currently include any suggestion of how many houses could co-host a party, but, according to Bradford E. Miller '97, the bill's sponsor and a Crimson editor, the bill is not intended to pave the way for campus-wide alcohol parties...