Word: although
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...Although the University purchased the land discreetly, the acquisition wasn't made to circumvent the desires of the community, Rudenstine says...
...Although the predictions that the world would end were about as accurate as Dionne Warwick's Psychic Friends Network, the precautionary efforts undertaken by companies and governments worldwide ensured that we can safely ring in the new year, the last year of the second millennium...
...Elian's father would be invited to travel from Cuba. But Juan Gonzalez and the Cuban government have, until now, rejected the option of his traveling to Miami for a family court hearing, charging that Florida's courts are open to influence from the powerful anti-Castro exile lobby. Although it's still legally possible for Washington to stick by its decision to send the boy home by Friday - legal experts suggest the case falls outside of the Florida family court's jurisdiction - the option may have become politically unpalatable for Washington. Sending Elian home against the wishes...
...senior military officers were among them. The Israeli leader not only has to keep his own coalition together through negotiating a deal with Syria that involves exchanging control of the Golan for peace and security; he has also pledged to put the issue before his electorate in a referendum. Although opinion polls show that only 41 percent of Israelis currently support handing over the territory, Mr. Barak could take heart from the fact that only 20 percent supported handing back the Sinai Peninsula at a comparable stage in the 1978 peace negotiations with Egypt. "Whether it be to the Egyptians...
...Although a poll conducted by the Wilderness Society indicates that more than 68 percent of Arizonans support the President's decision, TIME Denver correspondent Dick Woodbury says there are still plenty of "rank-and-file, conservative activist ranchers who are upset they weren't consulted before the announcement was made." And while a spokesperson from the Department of the Interior insists that only logging, clear-cutting and mining will be banned from the affected land, there are plenty of ranchers worried about their grazing rights. "This is a symptom of some westerners' inherent antipathy toward Washington and people from...