Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Aristide would have plenty of foes to reckon with, he would have no democratic infrastructure to lean on, no community organizations to assist his restoration plans, no security apparatus to help enforce his authority. The only buttress against anarchy would be the presence of U.S. troops. That could make for a very long occupation -- far longer than the U.S. Congress or the American and Haitian people have the patience to endure...
...going to mean $300 million a year forfive years, which I reckon is almost $1 million aday," Rudenstine said at the 10:30 a.m. pressconference. "It's already almost lunch, 12o'clock, and I haven't done anything yet today,"Rudenstine joked...
...happened so often in the past, Adams' measured words somehow turned violence into a plea for peace. His emergence as one of the key men to reckon with in Northern Ireland has brought him a long way from the rough streets of Belfast, where he began his activist career. Only two days before the attacks, he was rambling through the streets of west Belfast in a cold drizzle. He paused in front of a rubble heap, which for him was a monument to a heroic political struggle, not just the remnants of a high-rise public housing project. "These...
Then you have to reckon with their effect on ads, packaging, T shirts, window design in shops, the whole reappropriation party -- amusing and even joyous at first, and then, like most parties, a drag -- that the American commercial world threw to welcome back the images and techniques Lichtenstein took from it and put into a zippier, more art-conscious form, ripe for reuse as "quality" stuff...
...point first; sometimes their leaders do. Popular sentiment for an accommodation between Israel and the Arabs has been pushing up through the Middle East soil for six or seven years, ripening but not ready. Who's to say, exactly, what made an avowed terrorist and a gruff, tough soldier reckon the time to pluck it had come? Rabin, hero of the Six-Day War, stern enforcer of the occupation, talked about territorial compromise but seemed an unlikely figure to break long-standing taboos. As Defense Minister during the early days of the intifadeh, he vowed to defeat it with "force...