Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apply a strategy that ensures we cover the depth of the people," Graham says. "If we end up on African soil, we talk about everything--temperature, the equator, geography and the land...
...bankrolling corporate takeovers in favor of the mundane. Morgan Stanley has always considered such "retail" brokerage a pauper's enterprise. It has stuck with raising capital for the world's largest companies and advising them on what to do with same. Individual investors? Phew. Morgan bankers wouldn't soil their wing tips in that mire...
...Robert J. Dole ... " As East Room erupted in laughter, Dole continued dryly: " ... do solemnly swear. Uh, wrong speech." Just three days before Clinton will utter that same oath, he awarded his election opponent the nation's highest civilian honor. Dole was clearly moved when Clinton said: "Son of the soil, citizen, soldier and legislator, Bob Dole understands the American people, their struggles, their triumphs and their dreams." Choking back tears, Dole said "I will cherish it as long as I live." But even as he was moved, Dole kept his sense of humor: "I had a dream that I would...
Thus was launched what is possibly the single most audacious act in the history of terrorist hostage taking. The prominence of the prisoners, along with the fact that the siege was technically taking place on the soil of a foreign embassy, turned what might have been simply a debilitating domestic emergency in Peru into an international scandal. It dealt a staggering blow to Fujimori, who has staked much of his political fortune on stamping out homegrown terrorism. At the same time, it lent worldwide recognition to a group of insurgents that Fujimori only two years ago dismissed as a spent...
...remains ever found. For more than a generation, those estimates stood. Two years ago, however, a team headed by Swisher decided to find out just how old the fossils really were, using instruments that determine age by measuring radioactive decay in fossils that have absorbed uranium from the surrounding soil...