Word: waging
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Sharon had always opposed the Oslo peace agreements, arguing that Arafat would just use self-rule to wage war against Israel from up close. As a Palestinian mob lynched two Israeli soldiers on camera, as Palestinian marksmen shot into Israeli houses, Sharon's view came to be accepted by a growing number of his compatriots, propelling him to power in 2001. Israelis, right and left, were spoiling for a fight too, and Sharon was just the man to deliver one. In his first year in office, he was relatively restrained, punching hard but always calibrating his response to avoid...
Mariana Islands: Abramoff's first major client paid him $9 million in fees. He helped block legislation, opposed by the U.S. protectorate's textile industry, that would have imposed a minimum-wage law. The Marianas were the venue of many junkets for lawmakers...
...Democrat who supports abortion rights but shares the Governor's hostility to government regulation. And he has demoted partisans like liberal environmental activist Terry Tamminen and Kennedy's predecessor, conservative Republican Patricia Clarey. He is courting?or, some suggest, co-opting? Democrats on pet issues like raising the minimum wage and freezing tuition at state colleges. But at the same time, he followed the politically safe precedent?no California Governor had commuted a death sentence in 38 years?and denied clemency to death-row inmate Stanley (Tookie) Williams...
...little incentive for Democrats to go along with his agenda?and help him improve his fortunes in the process. Indeed, Democrats aren't completely in synch with his new proposals and intend to press for things still on their wish list, such as an inflation provision in the minimum-wage hike, the right to buy cheaper prescription drugs from abroad and higher spending on education and health care for the poor. "We should be on the offensive and not reacting to Arnold's new script, which is designed to save his own job," says Phil Angelides, the state treasurer...
...code of conduct, adopted in the spring of 2004, outlines the “primary standards,” including nondiscrimination and freedom of collective bargaining, as well as “preferential standards”—such as a living wage and environmental protection—that the university demands its contracted vendors to uphold...