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...legislature has used the state-wide vote as a pretext for eliminating rent control," Dowds said. "It's a hoax and a sham...
...disappearance of history painting must have come as a relief to the general audience. Now you didn't need to know who Gyges and Candaules were, and which one had the wife whose silky white backside was the real pretext for Gerome's painting in the 1859 Salon. It no longer mattered, at least from the viewpoint of painting, who won the Battle of Gaugamela, or which model was standing in for Phryne and which for Aspasia. In due course, movies like Spartacus and The Ten Commandments would satisfy the need once felt for Bible scenes, Greek agoras and Roman...
...finance its arms programs, Baghdad is constantly trying to persuade the U.N. to release its billions of dollars of frozen assets on the pretext of buying "humanitarian" supplies. So far, with the agreement of the sanctions committee, the Iraqis have managed to get back more than $250 million for humanitarian purchases, most of it from British and Swiss banks...
...Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, Chief of the General Staff Mikhail Kolesnikov and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. According to the memo, the coup would kick off in March or April with a television broadcast documenting Yeltsin's health problems and excessive drinking. The dramatic revelations would give parliament a pretext to remove the President, replacing him with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin until elections could be held...
...priority and said that "social stability is an indispensable prerequisite for economic development." He conceded that a "dialogue" with other countries on human rights was possible "on the basis of mutual equality" but warned that China "will never allow anyone to interfere in its internal affairs under any pretext...