Word: renews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...superpowers and Europeans may now be persuaded to renew efforts in Geneva to halt the spread of nuclear and chemical weapons. But the sad fact is that rulers like Saddam, whose country has already signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, operate outside international law. And thus it is only a matter of time before someone as single-minded as Saddam acquires the ability to annihilate a foe with atomic weapons...
...cafeteria at Chicago's Morgan Park High School was jammed, and tempers were rising. Only a week earlier, the school's new eleven-member, parent-led governing council had voted not to renew principal Walter Pilditch's contract. The move had sparked violent protests among students, parents and teachers, resulting in seven injuries and ten arrests. Now council president Calvin Pearce was gamely trying to get on with other pressing matters...
Twenty-five years ago, in Selma, Ala., club-wielding police attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Now the city of 27,000 is again experiencing racial turmoil. Last week 150 black high school students boycotted classes to protest the school board's failure to renew the contract of black Superintendent Norward Roussell. Governor Guy Hunt ordered National Guardsmen to protect students who went to school despite the boycott...
Lowry argued that Blacks must renew activism, examine their own lifestyles and participate actively in politics to achieve their civil rights goals...
...that respect, Sununu is a useful "bad cop" to Bush's "good cop." The President emphasized to TIME that he will renew his offer of cooperation with Congress this week in his first State of the Union address. But he warned half-jokingly, as he rolled his eyes in the direction of a smiling Sununu, "You've got some ((people)) sitting around here that aren't quite as kind and gentle." Never a patient sort, Sununu has grown exasperated with Congress's failure to act on the Administration's agenda and has persuaded Bush to depict the Democrats...