Word: approaching
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Jeffrey said the student committee might nowtake a different approach to trying to convincethe administration to change its policy...
...With the approach of Passover, supermarkets are carrying abundant supplies of matzo, the unleavened bread consumed during the Seder ceremony as a reminder of the Jews' tribulations under Pharaoh and their flight from Egypt. But last week a federal grand jury declared that the holiday price of matzo has not been kosher...
Pressured by Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa, who succeeded Jayewardene in 1989, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi agreed last year to withdraw Indian troops. The departure was hastened by Gandhi's ouster in elections last November. His successor, V.P. Singh, takes a less muscular approach to foreign policy. Said a senior aide to Singh: "We are glad to get out. We were not wanted there...
...than they used to be, which comes as something of a shock to others. Yet Germans could do more to ease the transition. "Little things add up," said Angelika Volle of the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn. "What Germany needs right now is Fingerspitzengefuhl, a delicate, tactful approach...
...Administration's German policy is the most nuanced of all. The Bush- Baker approach was reflected in their refusal to bash Helmut Kohl publicly for failing to declare the German-Polish border inviolate. As other Western leaders held press conferences to vent their spleen on the border issue, Washington urged privately that Kohl's coalition partners bear the burden of turning the Chancellor around, a result accomplished last week...