Word: tells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Bush journeyed to San Salvador as Vice President in 1983 to tell its leaders that the U.S. was prepared to drop aid to the country if they did not act against the death squads. He could make the same speech today. The country's center, enfeebled by vast poverty and the effects of a decade of war, is crumbling under the prodding of the offensive. The future for El Salvador looks to be a free-for-all between a buoyant and rearmed F.M.L.N. and generals willing to make the country a boneyard...
...opposition's strategy paid off handsomely. Although Congress remained the largest party in Parliament, it fell 71 seats shy of a majority. Three days after the third and final day of polling, Gandhi, looking fresh-faced and unperturbed, appeared on television to tell the nation, "The people have given their verdict. In all humility, we respect that verdict...
...Writing] was their health, it was not their sickness. I think the writing was their balance wheel.... They took life's chances... it's a very daring thing to tell the whole truth about what it's like to be alive...
...voice of reason piped in: "What if they don't tell us our number...
...like to give [high school students] a feel for what college is like," says Marks, who is in his second year as a volunteer for the program. "I would tell them what life is like at college...