Word: accession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When the price of oil quadrupled in 1974, we didn't go to war," she asserts. She also refutes the thesis offered in the book that Saddam invaded Kuwait to gain greater access to the Persian Gulf. If that was his motive, she argues, he would have just taken Northern Kuwait. That would have created a different scenario...
...true that AALARM was permitted to use the slower, featureless and poorer quality self-service copiers. But today, denying access to the best technology is tantamount to censorship. Why not, for that matter, deny an organization the use of a phone service, claiming that it is still free to go door-to-door...
During the past few years, however, as one media giant after another merged with a powerful partner, Wasserman apparently became convinced that MCA needed to make a strategic alliance to gain King Kong-like size and access to hoards of cash. Capital Cities bought ABC, General Electric acquired NBC, Murdoch bought Fox, and Time Inc. acquired Warner Communications. As Wasserman reportedly told an MCA shareholder last year, "We're a 200-lb. gorilla in a game with 1,000-lb. gorillas. We've got to become a 1,000-lb. gorilla or get out of the game...
...reversal for blacks seems to stem mainly from a large increase in the number of early deaths caused by homicides, car accidents, drug abuse and AIDS -- factors that relate directly to the perils of living in poor, violent neighborhoods. Other socioeconomic problems, including second-rate education and inadequate access to doctors and hospitals, also hold down the life expectancy of blacks and widen the gap between the races. Largely because of poor prenatal care, infant mortality among blacks is twice as high as among whites...
After the Osirak attack, Iraq tried to realize its ambitions by buying bomb- grade material from underground suppliers. In 1982 Iraqi agents paid $60 million to a team of Italian-based smugglers who claimed to have access to stores of plutonium and highly enriched uranium. According to U.S. officials, the smugglers' offer was a fraud, and the Iraqis walked away from it empty- handed...