Word: protocol
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...control, Issaias was shocked to discover that the money he needed to pay government workers was tied up in Addis Ababa banks; he is currently negotiating to release it. The Eritreans depend on the international community even more. "We need a massive aid transfusion," says Girma Asmeron, chief of protocol for the front. "If we don't get it, frankly, we're in trouble...
...generation of civil rights lawyers flocked to Marshall throughout the 1950s, when he still possessed dark, wavy hair and the stamina for long nights of poker and bourbon. He ran his office in the earthy style he would later bring to the Supreme Court, where he once shook up protocol-conscious Chief Justice Warren Burger by greeting him in the halls with a shout of, "What's shakin', Chiefie, baby...
...Plympton St. that are truly maddening. Of course, you have to feel a bit sorry for the Quadlings who do not have time to go to their own houses for lunch--but you don't have to be nice to them. Hissing at strangers is well within house protocol. But don't fret, if Barbara is checking IDs, she will wave you past the trespassers--because we live there...
...think some people would have liked us to tell them, This is the way you do it: Step one, step two, step three," she said. But, she added, "the richness of American higher education is its diversity. The search process reflects that. It needs to be attentive to the protocol on a particular campus, to the traditions, the issues, and the personnel on that campus...
...just three days before the deadline the U.N. has established for Iraq to leave Kuwait or face eviction by force. Bush replied that Saddam was trying to stretch out the grace period and insisted on an appointment on or before Jan. 3. Baghdad complained in response that protocol demanded that Saddam choose the meeting time, since he is senior to Baker...