Word: recessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preliminary conference, one faction stuffed delegates' pockets with bribes of up to $1,000, then threatened them with guns. At the national convention, appropriately held in a Buenos Aires musical-comedy theater, internecine feuding forced a two-day recess. When the 605 delegates finally came to a vote, however, they momentarily put their differences behind them. By an overwhelming margin, the Peronist Party nominated Italo Argentino Luder, 66, as its candidate for next month's elections, Argentina's first since the military seized power seven years ago. Declared Luder: "To be the candidate of Peronismo...
...Africa because of the "economic inefficiency of apartheid." The IMF is an international banking organization funded mainly by the U.S. that supplies billions of dollars annually to Third world nations. Backers of the measure hope to schedule a vote of the full House on the bill before the August recess...
...Africa because of the "economic inefficiency of apartheid." The IMF is an international banking organization funded mainly by the U.S. that supplies billions of dollars annually to Third World nations. Backers of the measure hope to schedule a vote of the full House on the bill before the August recess...
Webster never returned from Thanksgiving recess that year. She was last seen at Logan Airport the Saturday of that break. Webster's disappearance led to an intensive search involving Harvard, Cambridge, Boston, Saugus, Logan Airport and Massachusetts State Police...
...disavowed by Washington and Moscow. But West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher seemed to resurrect it last month when he told a reporter during a visit to Bulgaria that "the closer we come to the resumption of talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after the summer recess, it will be all the more useful to think along the lines of the agreement worked out on that walk in the woods." Five days later, Kohl further fueled speculation that Bonn was shifting its position when he said bluntly that the walk-in-the-woods idea "must be examined...