Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials, fearful of starting another run at the gasoline pump, issued soothing reassurances about the cushioning effect of the U.S.'s own stockpile. This country holds a 100-day supply at current rates of consumption. Meanwhile in Paris, members of the 20-nation International Energy Agency pledged to refrain from plunging into a destructive round of bidding against one another for supplies on the spot market...
...would have to agree to respect Iraqi sovereignty over its own land and waters, would have to maintain good relations with its Arab neighbors along the gulf, would have to promise not to meddle in Iraq's internal affairs, and as a kind of catchall, would have to refrain from "aggressive" activities...
...against the Algeria-backed Polisario guerrillas in the former Spanish Sahara, Shagari defused the crisis with a compromise peace-keeping plan. Similarly, it was Nigeria's displeasure over the executions of 13 top officials in Liberia that ultimately forced the erratic new regime of Sergeant Samuel Doe to refrain from further bloodspilling. With the exception of those states that actually border South Africa, Nigeria has done more than any other African nation to assist liberation movements in the white-ruled tip of the continent. As Shagari puts it, "This holy war against colonialism and racism in southern Africa...
Aquino himself expresses gratitude to the U.S., attributing his release to "a tremendous effort on the part of America." On his various excursions to Washington and New York, he urges the United States to refrain from supplying Marcos with "napalm and guns" and asks that America not "intervene--just...
...likely Carter cooked up such a strategy. But that it does not defy the imagination underscores Carter's main weakness as president: he has not led, he has been led. If citizens agree with the president's own refrain that there must be "no acceptance of mediocrity in any aspect of our private or public lives," then Carter will surely lose in November. But once layers of rhetoric are peeled away--words should not obscure reality--citizens may be confronted with the disturbing notion that Carter represents quite accurately their attitudes. He has reflected a certain ambivalence, an ambiguity...