Word: threw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talks with Baker, Shamir raised the question of who would represent the Palestinians at the conference, the same issue that led to the fall of the Israeli government of national unity in March 1990, and threw the Labor Party into opposition. Israel adamantly refuses to sit down with Palestinians from East Jerusalem for fear of signaling that the area, won in the 1967 war and now annexed to Jewish West Jerusalem, is open to negotiation...
...ground. When Bush set off in July 1989 for Eastern Europe, then in the midst of liberating itself from Moscow, he told his aides and speechwriters to avoid any appearance that he was "poking a stick in Gorbachev's eye." Later that year, when the East German Communist regime threw open Checkpoint Charlie at Moscow's behest, Bush vowed he would not "dance on the Berlin Wall." And during the climax of the gulf war, he deliberately avoided humiliating Gorbachev over the failure of his last-minute interventions...
...billion) as an impersonal bureaucracy, mocking the company in TV ads as Big Brother and depicting its customers as lemmings. The warring companies forced computer users to choose sides, sometimes dividing family members against one another. Those wanting easy-to-use, almost organic software favored Apple, while others threw their lot behind IBM because its PCs were backed by a wider assortment of programs...
Should a party in a divorce case have to fork over money never earned? Yes, if the person basically threw it away, according to a New York state judge. Mark Gastineau, the former New York Jets defensive end known for his opponent- taunting dances, walked out on the team after only six games of the 1988 season to spend time with his fiancee, actress Brigitte Nielsen. Gastineau was then earning $46,000 a game. Last month the judge ruled that Gastineau's wife Lisa, who had sued for divorce in 1986, was owed one-third of Gastineau's forfeited salary...
...diplomats based in Addis Ababa to visit the province. All international aid agencies with representatives in Asmara have been told to sit tight while their contracts are renegotiated; their employees are not permitted to travel or to communicate with the outside world. Two weeks ago, without explanation, the front threw out the team from the International Committee of the Red Cross. "There is the feeling," said one aid worker, "that anyone who worked with Mengistu's government is the enemy...