Word: praiseed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Aquino rightfully deserves praise for holding together her people against extremism, it is worth remembering that her presidency is still less than a year old. Unless she can parlay her enormous popular support into concrete political stability, the continual crises of the past months will continue to resurface.
The explanation for Bush's approach is simple. He aches to be President, and to win that prize must endure certain deferential, hand-dirtying things. Thus he had to neutralize conservatives, who for years have scorned him. His courtship of Religious Leader Jerry Falwell last year reeked of ambition. Bush...
Born in Mecca, Khashoggi grew up with the confidence that comes from being the firstborn son in a country where the eldest boy is the prince of the family. His father, Dr. Mohammad Khashoggi, was the chief physician to King Abdul Aziz, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. From his...
In any ordinary business, Manucher Ghorbanifar would cut an implausibly mysterious figure. Officially, he has been a shipping executive in Tehran and a commodities trader in France. By his own account he was a refugee from the revolutionary government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, which confiscated his businesses in Iran, yet...
The government's response to the ad was swift. By midnight it had extended emergency press regulations to forbid publication of "any advertisement or report calculated to improve or promote the public image or esteem of an organization which is unlawful." Likewise forbidden were attempts to praise, defend, explain or...