Word: reines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Accordingly, Beijing has had to rein in its truculence a bit. China has said it is willing to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and in September Beijing agreed to talk about ways to guarantee Washington that prison-made goods would not be sold to the U.S. China has indicated it will consider adhering to the guidelines of the 18-nation Missile Technology Control Regime. It also helped establish the U.N.-administered peace settlement that returned Prince Norodom Sihanouk to Cambodia last week...
...leaking gas pipe. With the disclosure of B.C.C.I.'s "black network" around the world came an explosion of new charges and political recriminations that seem likely to go on for months. The question of the hour: Why had so many countries done so little for so long to rein in the Bank of Credit & Commerce International when, as is now evident, so many were aware of the bank's nefarious operations...
...withdraw his forces from Kuwait did Congress really debate the direction that U.S. policy should take in the region. And by then, it was far too late to effect any meaningful change in policy. Congress had two choices at this last-ditch meeting: continue to give Bush free rein in determining war policy, or suddenly change course and shackle the president and the United National in the 11th hour before the deadline...
...other hand, the U.S. has tried to restrain Israel from undertaking preemptive strikes against its Arab neighbors or from escalating conflicts that have already begun. Massive aid packages have given the U.S. the leverage to apply the carrot as well as the stick to rein in its often bellicose ally...
...opponents of war were not friends of Iraq. "The only debate here in the Congress is over whether we slowly strangle Saddam with sanctions or immediately pursue a military solution," he insisted. "The choice is really over tactics." Robert Michel, the House G.O.P. leader, countered that those seeking to rein in the President's war power were creating a "brass choir of indecision, doubt and confusion...