Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shape U.S. foreign policy for decades. Since 1941, when he gave up investment banking to join the Government, he has worked for nearly every Administration. In a celebrated 1950 memorandum, he defined the Soviet military threat and urged vastly increased defense spending. It was a call he was to renew many times over the years...
...Virginia, there is still a Government of the U.S. Or at least it looks as if there will be this week. Congress and the President played a political game of chicken through the end of last week over a "continuing resolution" that would renew the Government's legal right to spend money. But chances were that they would agree on a measure enabling the Government to pay its employees, sign contracts, send out benefit checks and perform all of its other functions-at least for the next four months...
...Haven on Saturday. Harvard and Yale will renew their un-paralleled rivalry for the 98th time. And for the 98th time, nothing else will matter for two-and-a-half late-autumn hours in the rarifield world inhabited by Crimson and Eli supporters--not other football games, not the Dow Jones Industrials, not any clear and present dangers...
...being kidnapped, chained and beaten, they choose again and again to face the firearms of the whites. Sometimes their spirits, resolve and sheer numbers would overwhelm the enemy, but more often than not, they failed. Yet whites on those vessels admitted that the Africans never conceded and would always renew the battle. But once out of sight of the African shore, suicide remained as the only truly viable form of protest for the soon-to-be slaves; though starvation and drowning seem to be passive actions of giving up, Harding asserts that these moves occurred rather to defy the whites...
...again on the march in the Middle East," and Secretary of State Alexander Haig predicted that the deal "will inevitably contribute to stability and the peace process" in the area. There were some initial glimmers of hope: Egypt's new President Hosni Mubarak said that he would try to renew ties with Arab nations critical of the peace process, and Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat said that he welcomed a peace plan proposed last August by the Saudis that implicitly calls for coexistence between Israel and the Arab nations...