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Meanwhile, the Administration strove to create the impression that it was taking humanitarian steps to alleviate Haitians' suffering. Officials spoke of "redirecting" the economic embargo imposed by the Organization of American States, to relieve pressure on ordinary Haitians and target the assets of individuals connected with the coup. Yet in the four months since the trade ban was imposed Bush has taken no steps to implement such a "scalpel embargo," giving coup sympathizers time to clear their assets out of the U.S. An official acknowledged that the Administration had bowed to domestic business interests after complaints that the embargo...
...MALE GUESTS strove to do their best. This is some of the stuff they came up with...
...acceded to Gorbachev's programs of glasnost and perestroika, which were intended to help the Soviet Union catch up to the achievements of the West. During the first three years of perestroika, the agency was largely untouched by the changes that were pressing upon other institutions, and strove to promote Gorbachev's goals of improving work discipline, attacking corruption and fostering greater industrial efficiency...
Even as countries strove to pierce the veil of deceit and corruption that shrouds B.C.C.I., fresh disclosures of the bank's influence peddling came to light. TIME has learned that Pharaon helped keep CenTrust open for a year longer than its bankrupt condition warranted after acquiring a total of 1.5 million CenTrust shares, or more than 5% of the S&L's stock, in 1988 and 1989. CenTrust was so shaky by late 1988 that regulators for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Atlanta had decided to shut it down...
RoboDeer is the pet creation of Pete McCuskey, owner of Mountain Security Specialties, who watched hours of deer videos to learn and duplicate genuine buck motions. "We strove for the most natural movement," he boasts...