Word: relented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make matters still worse, New York has been facing a congressional mandate to equip subway stations and buses for the handicapped. The MTA estimates that this would cost $1.4 billion over the next 30 years, plus $100 million a year in operating funds. The Reagan Administration may relent and allow New York to provide special but separate facilities for the handicapped...
...pass it on in its entirety to [Palestine Liberation Organization Leader] Yasser Arafat, why don't you say so instead of making all this economic talk?" Hurvitz, who had resigned from the Cabinet once before in opposition to the Camp David peace accords, was not about to relent. When the Cabinet finally voted to give the teachers the increase, he made good on his threat and tendered his resignation. His defection and that of four other Knesset colleagues reduced Begin's coalition to 58 votes in the 120-seat Knesset, three short of the 61 needed to carry...
Muskie is certain to dispute firmly any such interpretation. Though long an advocate of U.S.-Soviet detente, Muskie told the Senate last week that he had been "as shaken as the American people were" by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As a result, he said, "we must not relent in imposing a heavy price" on Moscow. And he added: "The burden at this point falls on the Soviets to change their policy in Afghanistan." This tough stance seems in tune with the public's mood. A survey taken earlier this year by the Foreign Policy Association revealed that...
Hostage in arid white Stillman, he didn't care at all. He rather liked it; the disease had consumed him, and his person would absorb it. He was one bloated gland. He would not relent...