Word: skirmisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canadian government claims that diplomatic immunity exempts the Gotliebs from testifying. Contending that Canada waived that privilege when officials answered written questions last year, Seymour accused the government of "duplicitous behavior." Canadian External Affairs Secretary Joe Clark called Seymour's argument "irresponsible." The skirmish has quieted down temporarily: the judge presiding over Deaver's trial decided to postpone proceedings until the fall...
...question remains of how much discomfort -- not to mention occasional pain -- may be involved. If, as the Reagan Administration hopes, the semiconductor skirmish spurs Tokyo to more urgent efforts to settle trade disputes, it will have served a useful purpose...
...Harvard the cost of the little skirmish wasminimal--a slightly higher laundry bill because ofBourbeau's jersey. For Army--a team struggling toearn respectability in the ECAC after joining theleague this year--the fight may have cost it thegame. And maybe a playoff spot
...battle at the end of the film was based on a New Year's Day skirmish less than a mile from the Cambodian border. "They hit us with about 5,000 troops that night. They laid bombs right on top of us; we dropped bombs right on them. It's possible that our high command was using us as bait to draw the ! Viet Cong out so we could inflict heavy casualties. We lost about 25 dead and 175 wounded; we killed about 500 of them. Their bodies were scraped up by bulldozers, just like in the movie. For that...
Perhaps the toughest task before the new Senate majority will be speaking in a unified voice. There may be a skirmish for the soul of the party between the Kennedy-Cranston Old Guard and a neoliberal faction led by such Senators as Joe Biden of Delaware and Georgia's Sam Nunn. The Democrats have historically been a party of competing factions. Sometimes, as when Southern segregationists of old were filibustering the civil rights legislation of their Northern colleagues, there has been open warfare. The struggle this time around will be more subdued...