Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't see a way to amend it. Once before, Arafat had summoned the Palestine National Council, many of whose members loathe the peace process, to change the charter. Reconvening them would be an embarrassment--and a danger. Clinton suggested a way out: he would fly to Gaza to speak to the council when it met. At dawn Friday, Arafat, Netanyahu and Clinton shook on a deal...
...MISS PIGGY, the megalomaniacal muppet with a fetish for frogs, next month launches her own scent, Moi, a perfume that smells as sweet as honey-baked ham. Asked why anyone would want to wear something that smells good to a pig, Miss Piggy, or, more precisely, the people who speak for her, insist that "elegance and sex appeal transcend species...
...team can find competition only from earlier Yankees: in 1936-39, or Babe Ruth's 1927 squad. But those teams were whites-only, shielded from the dominant players of the Negro Leagues; today's players comprise the best of the entire world: blacks, Hispanics, Japanese pitchers who can't speak English, the entire Dominican Republic. Athletes are paddling over in rafts to be in this league...
...advocate the reduction of our defense budget as the obvious and righteous thing to do [BUSINESS, Oct. 5]. The Gulf War marked the first time in this century that American forces went to war fully equipped and fully trained. The results, quick victory with miraculously few allied casualties, speak for themselves. Now that the U.S. military has finally got it right, let's not be too quick to tamper with success. Though some post-cold war cutbacks are inevitable and necessary, history shows that in the end it is always less costly to our sons and daughters in uniform when...
Mahathir is the bravest leader in Asia. He is able to speak his mind and articulate his vision for his country. He has declared in no uncertain terms his feelings and intentions. Mahathir has support here in South Africa, a country ravaged by the effects of so-called globalization. Here the man in the street is literally a man in the street, having seen his home taken away from him through mortgage foreclosure and unemployment that are the result of market manipulation. SABER AHMED JAZBHAY Durban, South Africa...