Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tuition runs about $95,000 for two years--a lot to swallow without financial assistance for many budding business tycoons...
...show Iranians that America is not the 'Great Satan,' especially when they see the Americans shaking hands with them after being defeated." A sound case for the favored Americans to throw the game? Perhaps, but losing to a traditional enemy might be a little hard for Americans to swallow. So perhaps the growing rapprochement between Washington and Tehran would be best served by a well-fought draw...
...civil investigative demands to nearly a dozen Microsoft customers, requesting information and documents, including e-mail, sales data and meeting notes. The narrowly written requests, carefully shaped by Justice's allies, demanded items of such specificity that when the Feds arrived, there was little the recipients could do but swallow hard and hand over the goods. "We really laser-beamed it in on them so there was nowhere to move," says an executive who aided the probe. "We tried to make sure it wasn't just a couple of companies; we wanted to hit the entire industry so that everyone...
...only Clinton but the entire planet is facing a hard truth. There is little that can stop nations willing to swallow international condemnation in order to obtain the weapons of mass death they deem vital to their national security or just their national prestige. Unfortunately history remembers the bombs that go off, not the ones that...
...problems with this strategy lie in keepingthe coalition together. On some issues wherelegislation could divide schools between publicand private or large and small, some institutionshave to swallow their objections or ambitions forthe good of the whole...