Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...island's deteriorating economy is growing rapidly, and if something is not done fairly soon to make life easier, people's desperation could reach the combustion point. But a visit to the island shows little evidence of imminent revolt. For now, Fidel faces no organized opposition. Despite their open verbal attacks on Castro and the communist system, the discontented seem readier to leave than to rebel; many still pin their hopes on internal reform. The question is how long the Cubans will put up with such harsh privation before taking change into their own hands...
President Clinton used a New Orleans speech to launch his own verbal offensive against America's putative decline in family values. Just a day after former Veep Dan Quayle attacked a "poverty of values" in a speech in San Francisco, Clinton told the National Baptist Convention that citizens had a "personal moral responsibility" to improve life in their communities. The thematic difference between the President's speech and that of his would-be '96 rival: Clinton focused on moral guidance for troubled teens, while Quayle blamed the country's entertainment industry and political and religious institutions for the mess. Afterward...
According to the report, Yoon said that in themidst of a verbal argument, her spouse had become"very upset and struck...
Haiti's Justice Ministry, on orders of the military-backed government, began treason proceedings against exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide for backing foreign intervention to restore him to power. TIME correspondent Edward Barnes, in Port-au-Prince, says the "mock trial" is yet another verbal volley designed to make Haiti's rulers look like men of action -- when all they're doing is waiting to see if the U.S. will invade. "If this were a card game," he says, "there's only one card left, and that's the ace": invasion. Meanwhile, Barnes reports, the U.S.-led embargo is proving...
Local 40, the carpenter's union, had originally objected to the tax break. But Mark Erlich, the Local 40 manager, said the union changed its mind when he reached a verbal agreement with Biogen's subcontractors that only union labor would be hired...