Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disquieting suggestions of "new Hiroshimas" and "Chernobyls" were enough to force a swift rethink of strategy. Last week Germans modified their enthusiastic calls for an eastward expansion of NATO, pushing instead for a "gradual and controlled" opening in order to assuage Russia's paranoid generals. In Washington the dominant refrain was to urge the U.S. Administration both to reduce its personal identification with Yeltsin and to broaden its contacts within Russia. And Westerners everywhere read the returns as proof positive that Yeltsin's personal popularity did not translate into broad-based support for Western-style, free-market economy...
...local legislative acts, and natural resources are subject to joint federal and local control. Anticipating trouble in the hinterlands, which have exploited tensions in Moscow to go their own way, last week Kremlin advisers bluntly told local leaders in the ethnic republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Tuva and Kalmykia to refrain from "irresponsible remarks," hinting that the Kremlin might take measures to bring them into line...
Most importantly, they're winning. Unlike past seasons, in which the "wait 'til next year" refrain was used more often than the average Harvard student's snooze button, it finally seems that the proverbial future...
Asian Americans have already formed organizations to serve as activist groups. Harvard's campus, for example, has more than eight Asian student organizations; at least two are less than a year old. But for the most part, these student groups refrain from political involvement. The Asian American Association, meant to be an umbrella group representing all Asian American students, is better known for its noodle nights and Quincy dining hall dances than for any political commentary...
Local ministers interviewed yesterday expressed outrage at allegations that New Jersey's Republican Governor-Elect Christine Todd Whitman paid Black ministers to refrain from urging their congregations to vote for her opponent...