Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little they might get in a settlement now, or holding out for more -- and losing everything. Washington debated whether it could use a flash of air power to warn the Serbs away from Sarajevo without encouraging the Muslims to balk at signing an agreement. That was as much a sop to conscience as a calibrated military action, and, as usual, America and its allies could not agree on how much would be just right...
...compromise proposed on Sunday met strong and immediate rejection. The nine-point plan had offered a sop to the Congress, later described as an attempted "bribe," by letting them keep their privileges and salaries until their term ends in 1995. The Deputies condemned the plan as a cynical attempt to circumvent the Congress. "Only cynical people could have come up with this," raged conservative Deputy Gennadi Benov. "We could accept this only if we are a Congress of political suicides." Opposition Deputy Vladimir Isakov immediately proposed an impeachment motion and said to Khasbulatov, "We are sick and tired of your...
...free last week when President F.W. de Klerk released 150 prisoners in a deal to entice Nelson Mandela's African National Congress back to the negotiating table. Most of the convicts had been serving time for violent acts in the antiapartheid cause, but Strydom's release was an obvious sop to whites: as leader of the ultra-right White Wolves, he had become a hero for some militant Afrikaners. Nonetheless, many blacks and whites were appalled...
...economic growth. Unfortunately, since everything he does and says should be geared toward repressing the conclusion that he is too slick for high office, Clinton is still loath to confess the change. He continues to deny the obvious; his advocacy of a middle-class tax-rate cut was a sop to New Hampshire's strapped primary voters, and his scaling back of that promise today merely confirms a new and more sober political and economic stance for the fall effort...
...insiders, served partly to reduce the potential payoff for improper trades. Now when insiders decide to unload their portfolios, they can get a bigger bang for the buck by exercising their options and immediately selling the stock. The change in the law, according to some securities experts, was a sop to Big Business. Says Levy: "The SEC has wiped an entire class of violations off the books. It didn't stop the abuses; it just pretends they don't exist." Insiders are already cashing in. During the first three months of this year, insiders exercised $1 billion worth of options...