Word: straussed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what would be perceived as an outside threat to Nicaragua. Cisneros urged that aid to rebels be suspended through 1985 to give the U.S. a chance to test hints by the Sandinistas that they might be willing to agree to some liberalization. Partly at the urging of Commissioner Robert Strauss, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Cisneros and Diaz-Alejandro muted their dissents, recording them as individual "notes" rather than as a formal minority report...
...perform their music. In addition to the usual considerations of vocal agility and purity of tone, Wagner demanded endurance, a prodigious memory and a sound that could cut like hot steel through his dense orchestrations. Puccini required singers capable of searing dramatic flights, coupled with limpid lyricism. And Richard Strauss, envisioning his ideal Salome, was only partly joking when he asked for a 16-year-old with the voice of Isolde. No wonder then that outstanding interpreters of such operatic peaks as Briinnhilde, Turandot and Elektra are in perennially short supply...
...Minister. But the opposition Social Democrats called for his resignation. Said Party Floor Leader Hans-Jochen Vogel: "An ordinary government employee would be suspended until the end of the proceedings." One of Kohl's concerns is that Lambsdorff's resignation would encourage hard-line Conservative Franz Josef Strauss, the maverick leader of the Christian Democrats' Bavarian-based sister party, to make a play for the Economics Minister's portfolio. Kohl will resist such a move. But if Strauss were to succeed, Bonn's centrist policies could begin to slant to the right...
Also contributing to the find score were Rob Strauss with two goals and senior Dwight Rouse who notched the Crimson's final tally Although he only learned to swim as a freshman and has played sparingly in his first year as a water polo player, Rouse has helped the team all year out of the pool...
...Steve is one of the funniest people I have ever met," says sophomore Rob Strauss. "He is also really efficient. He gets so incredibly funny. He sings, bounces his head off the wall, he keeps everyone loose. Fasi is Joe Cool, but he is a really nice guy. They are the program. I'll miss them both as friends and athletes...