Word: planned
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Jewett reiterated that the randomization plan is not aimed at restricting student choice but at eliminating negative stereotype of houses...
...head by speaking loudly and carrying a small stick. He did offer important new proposals on conventional-force reductions in Europe. Otherwise, he has allowed the Kremlin to trump him with a variety of strategic-arms offers, while he nonchalantly dusted off Dwight Eisenhower's "Open Skies" plan (to allow each superpower overflight inspections of the other's territory) and suggested a reduction in chemical weapons that Congress had long since ordered him to make. His offer of economic assistance to Poland and Hungary, as they attempt to loosen the shackles of the Communist economic system, seemed to be just...
...presidential attention. Since Japanese furniture makers are eager for tropical hardwoods, officials in western Brazil hoped that Tokyo would finance the paving of a 500-mile road that would link the Amazon to a Peruvian highway, allowing lumberers to truck their timber directly to Pacific ports. But the plan, Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Gates cautioned the President, would subject the western Amazon to more of the slash-and-burn land clearing that has already devastated much of the rain forest's eastern regions. The torching releases into the air tons of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases that...
...ponder a solution for their country's devastating 14-year civil war. In fact, failure in Lebanese peace efforts has become almost customary. But after two weeks of consultations in the Saudi Arabian resort of Taif, the parliamentarians -- 33 Christians and 30 Muslims -- were close to agreement on a plan to establish a "government of national reconciliation." It calls for Muslim-Christian power sharing and phased withdrawal of the 40,000 Syrian troops who have been in Lebanon under an Arab League mandate since...
...plan's success is far from certain, of course. General Michel Aoun, commander of the Christian forces fighting Syria and its Lebanese Muslim allies, warned in East Beirut that "the war of liberation will continue" until the Syrians are driven out. Muslim warlords also dismissed the Taif meeting and called for Aoun's ouster...