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Word: resorted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resort to the cliche that the First Lady "just didn't have the options we had" is to resort to the obvious; to argue that the controversy is a "generational thing" is utterly simplistic...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Where Wellesley Went Wrong | 5/11/1990 | See Source »

Last week, Carney sent Harvard President DerekC. Bok a letter urging him to use "persuasion"instead of threats when dealing with ROTC. Carneywrote that ROTC should only be kicked off campusas a "last resort...

Author: By Erik M. Weitzman, | Title: Navy Reverses Stand On ROTC Funds For Two Gay Men | 5/9/1990 | See Source »

...long as Moscow does not resort to a military assault, the West could continue to appeal for peace but otherwise let Gorbachev resolve the Lithuanian crisis in his own way. Washington is clearly tempted by this option. After consulting with visiting French President Francois Mitterrand in Florida the day after Moscow cut off oil to Lithuania, President Bush emerged saying that his staff still had not confirmed the "exact extent of any Soviet crackdown" and that he could not say when the U.S. "might do something" to retaliate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Western Powers Are Right to Tread Carefully | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...cope with these unexpected cuts, schools have generally had to resort to increases in student fees...

Author: By Erik M. Weitzman, | Title: Mass. Higher Education System Faces Tough Times | 4/24/1990 | See Source »

...that could produce thousands of new white-collar and service jobs, Milwaukee's civic leaders never gave much thought to the possibility of civil unrest. So it came as a shock when alderman Michael McGee proclaimed earlier this month that he was forming a Black Panther militia that would resort to "actual fighting, bloodshed and urban guerrilla warfare" unless the city did more to improve the lot of impoverished African Americans. Inner-city blacks, warned McGee, were fed up with white officials spending money on shopping malls and skyscrapers while prosperity passed them by. "It's been 25 years since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eruptions in The Heartland: MCGEE'S MILITIA | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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