Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained what ensued: "If a...raging mob of thousands of people is coming at you trying to tear you to bits, you try to use whatever method of crowd control you can short of live ammunition. And if that doesn't help, if you're outnumbered roughly 100 to one and you know that you have to save your life, you will use live fire. That happened here...
...largest institution of its kind in the country, HMC has traditionally had a high level of direct control over Harvard's endowment. With a huge staff of money managers, the company has functioned very much like a Wall Street firm and has not often turned to outside sources for investment help...
...said the cartel's recent failure to control Kuwait's oil production led to lower oil prices and reduced the profits reaped by Iraq and other nations which followed OPEC guidelines...
...should commend them, and not discard a whole program because of something beyond its control; it is the military's inflexibility that prohibits ROTC from accepting gays and lesbians. We should voice our dissent and dissatisfaction with this policy--without damaging the rest of a valuable program and the patriotism of its participants...
...fossilized remnant of British imperialism, and that Iraq's claim cannot be brushed aside. However, this view also rests on the legacy of colonialism. Under the Ottoman Turks, Kuwait was supposedly to be administered from the Iraqi city of Basra. In actuality, none of the Ottoman attempts to extend control over Kuwait suceeded. The de facto independence of the Kuwaiti people led by the Al-Sabah family could not be questioned. Thus, Saddam Hussein does not categorically oppose colonialism; rather, he utilizes that form of (Ottoman) imperialism which best serves his own meglomanical ends...