Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, three council members voted against the bridge in spite of the absence of overt controversy surrounding...
...spite of these possibly discouraging sentiments, second term Council Chairman Sesha Pratap '84 is among those who believe that undergraduates gained a great deal from the new government's existence this year...
...give himself some negotiating flexibility by decrying the American "pressure" even as he sends in troops to check the Libyan advance. It is altogether possible that the tactic is working. Gaddafi last week gave Mitterrand the benefit of the doubt, saying that France "was drawn into that conflict in spite of itself." This, as well as his repeated assertions that Libya is not directly involved in the conflict, may be Gaddafi's way of preserving a little room to maneuver in future negotiations...
...formally denied TIME'S report (July 25) that American weapons were flowing from the U.S. to Iran in spite of a U.S. ban on such sales. But some congressional committees have taken an interest in the matter and intend to pose questions to the Administration about it after the summer recess. Coincidentally, federal agents in New York City concluded eight months of undercover investigation into illegal weapons exports last week. Eight men were charged with conspiring to sell more than $2 billion worth of weapons, including attack helicopters, rocket launchers, missiles, tanks and machine guns, to federal agents...
...civilians. As he told TIME in a rare interview in 1975, "The saddest thing in my reign was the Second World War." Some revisionists now say that the Emperor's melancholy reserve masks the spirit of a shrewd and scheming warmonger. Most historians, however, contend that in spite of, or indeed because of, his unassuming pacifism, the unworldly scholar was often unable to dominate his nation's ruthless army. In 1941, for example, Japan's leaders turned to Hirohito while deliberating whether to join the war. Without explanation, the poker-faced monarch proceeded to recite a gnomic...