Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in Tehran, the outwitted captors of the U.S. hostages and government officials were apoplectic. "This is illegal, it's illegal!" raged one of the militants guarding the U.S. embassy. Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, just defeated in his quest for the presidency, vowed: "Sooner or later, somewhere in the world, Canada will pay." Whatever "hardness or harshness" now befalls the American hostages, he threatened, "it's only the Canadian government that will be responsible...
...Everyone who is getting old is sooner or later confronted with the sober fact that powers diminish and that one cannot carry out one's task as one used to. And then there comes a moment when it's no longer justified to continue carrying out duties. I feel that the moment has come to resign as your Queen...
...GREAT ART is art that renders labels meaningless then London Calling should finally do in the "new wave." Its lyrical and musical fertility recalls another celebrated double album, Exile on Main Street, far sooner than any Sex Pistols product. Like the Stones' masterpiece, London Calling has its longueurs; but its two discs conjure the end of the '70s as unmistakably as Exile did their beginning. The title track does so best. Over the ominous bleating of Mick Jones's slightly off-key guitar and a despondent, resigned chorus that drops off into silence, Joe Strummer launches into a chronicle...
TIME'S fervent admiration for Daley's "knack of finessing problems that sooner or later went away" is either cynical or naive. His legacy of more than two decades includes the usual sweetheart deals, payoffs, public loafing and school financial mismanagement bordering on criminal, besides a panoply of extravagant, unbuildable public works and a sorry record of getting the federal share. Mayor Byrne was not elected to repeat the past and is not afraid to face the future...
...communication. One ambush in the northern Salang Pass, for example, successfully blocked a Soviet convoy of more than 200 vehicles at a 7,000-ft. altitude for almost 24 hours. Yet for all their hit-and-run bravado, it was clear that the rebels were on the defensive, and sooner or later the Soviets would have the insurgency under control. "A besieged government on the verge of collapse has been saved," an Asian military attache grudgingly allowed. "Shoring up a doomed regime obviously was the Soviets' first priority...