Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...month preceding the invasion of Kuwait say they provided precise details of Iraqi troop movements, logistics and air activity. But for most of that crucial period the reports remained vague on a fundamental question: Was Saddam bluffing the Kuwaitis, planning a short cross-border raid, or about to swallow the country whole? One explanation: intelligence assessments tend to be cautious and shy away from firm predictions. But there were other reasons why the Administration was so slow to come to terms with threats from Saddam. Policymakers who had spent years offering sanguine assessments of his regime were reluctant to accept...
...toughest pill for the West to swallow may be its own impotence. Beyond signaling their displeasure, Washington and Europe can do little to affect events inside the U.S.S.R. "The Soviets are sensitive to what is being said abroad," says a French official. "But frankly, we can't hope that what we do will cause Moscow to change its behavior." Moreover, some analysts advise that punishing Gorbachev for the blood spilled in Vilnius and Riga by withdrawing Western aid might undercut him and strengthen Soviet hard-liners. A U.S. official points out that almost all the aid Washington has pledged "will...
...part, the FDIC hopes to sell the failed banks to a strong institution by the end of the year. But the agency will have to swallow up to $6 billion of sour loans, and the messy task of liquidating them, to make the deal appealing to buyers. The FDIC said it was talking with six possible suitors for the banks, including Ohio's prosperous Banc One Corp. and San Francisco-based BankAmerica Corp., the second largest U.S. banking company behind Citicorp in New York City...
...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...take a phone call from someone in the media," Silverglate says, comparing his situation to that of Dershowitz. "You get dragged into these things and they try to swallow...