Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this were new to him and Chou had not been reporting daily. "He started it," answered Chou, "but others have caught up." Mao went along cheerfully with Chou's implication that the Soviets were now the principal threat, but he discouraged any undue sense of danger that might tempt accommodation. The Soviets' courage, he said, did not match their ambitions, as demonstrated during the Cuban missile crisis and America's alert during the previous month's Mideast war. He illustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders by the story of his enlustrated his contempt for Soviet leaders...
...postwar crisis has a U.S. President come close to using strategic nuclear weapons. There was thus no more urgent task for American defense policy than to increase substantially the capacity for local resistance. But a buildup of conventional forces was decried as dangerous because it would tempt distant adventures, or as too costly...
...feel that they would have to cut output to 7 million or even 6 million bbl. to dry up the glut and stop the slide in prices. Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates, reportedly was in Saudi Arabia last week in an at tempt to persuade King Khalid to send a delegation to the OPEC meeting...
Harvard made one last desperate at tempt to even the score, but an overanxious squad drove the ball out of bounds...
...cutoff line for totally free lunches drops to $10,990 from the $11,520 scheduled under the old law. Furthermore, the new legislation urges schools not to notify parents of the changes in eligibility rules for free lunches when asking them to report their incomes, in order not to tempt them to understate their earnings...