Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials insist that time will transform the raw recruits into an effective authority. Now they lean heavily on 6,000 U.N. peacekeepers, but they will soon be expected to step in for the entire contingent--unless the Security Council approves Preval's urgent request to retain 1,800 for another six months. Even though the peacekeepers may serve only as a psychological deterrent, the Americans have been vital to U.N. credibility. But at the very moment when the country's insecurity is growing, the U.S. is leaving. A senior American diplomat familiar with Haiti says, "Of course...
...realization had sunk into the human psyche that sex can be life-threatening, the nature of relationships in our society had to change. And there were two main roads our culture could follow. The first was to return to the 1950s notion of postponed intimacy. The second was to retain sex as part of the dating scene, but to make relationships monogamous. And this is what appears to have happened. Quite simply, the behavior of the most technologically advanced and socially complex civilization the world has ever known has been forced towards emotional and sexual exclusiveness by the most basic...
...Saints, led by ECAC Rookie of the Week Bob Prier, finished the weekend with a tie and a victory to retain its one-point lead in the conference. Prier had three goals in St. Lawrence's 6-5 victory over Union (5-15-4, 2-11-3) on Saturday. St. Lawrence could have used a sixth goal Friday night, too, when it tied Rensselaer...
...Club will retain its current name and location at 2 Holyoke Place, while the D.U. Club at 45 Dunster St. will either be sold or leased to retailers...
...identify those responsible for Ndadaye's assassination and for the massacres that followed. But that task too is being delayed by lack of resources, commission members say. Moreover, even if the team were to name suspects, it would not have the means to detain them, since many almost surely retain key positions in the military and the coalition government...