Word: vows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, the Islamic Salvation Front won an overwhelming majority in the June 1990 municipal elections, the first multiparty vote since Algeria gained independence from France in 1962. Then the gulf war sparked a fresh burst of anti-Western sentiment. If the fundamentalists ever come to power, they vow to outlaw alcohol, segregate the sexes and impose Shari'a, creating a society dramatically different from the socialist state built more than three decades ago by nationalist revolutionaries...
...right? Under the Bush proposals, tests would be taken voluntarily by students across the country in the fourth, eighth and 12th grades, yielding uniform yardsticks of performance. What the exams would look like is unclear, although Education Department officials vow they would not resemble the multiple-choice exercises of the past. The achievement tests would document the knowledge of children in five core subjects: mathematics, science, English, history and geography. The White House has asked Congress for $12.4 million -- a pittance -- to start work on developing both the exams and the standards that would go with them...
...Read my lips." In fact, his wording was rather pedestrian. But the substance of Boris Yeltsin's campaign promise was quite as bold, and may be every bit as difficult to fulfill, as George Bush's 1988 vow not to raise taxes. Under his "program of immediate economic stabilization" for the Russian Federation, said Yeltsin, "there will be the beginning of an improvement in living standards toward the end of 1992." In other words, he would not just stop but reverse the calamitous economic plunge that is the legacy of more than 70 years of communist mismanagement. And he would...
Needless to say, the student activists remain unhappy about both the letter and the photographs, and vow that if Clark's actions have any effect on them, it will be to make their protest even more vigorous...
...have cooled and the public has grown weary of the Iran- contra investigation. The boyish-looking, soft-spoken Gates, during two years as first lieutenant to retiring CIA Director William Webster and two more as Deputy National Security Adviser to Bush, has assiduously cultivated key Senators. Though some Democrats vow to re-examine Gates' Iran-contra role, most Senators predict that he will be confirmed this time, barring some unexpected new evidence of wrongdoing. "Bob Gates was an exceptional deputy to Webster, an honest liaison to the congressional committees and an invaluable aide to the President in the White House...