Word: dated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diehard right is alarmed at the very real prospect that in the coming month the government and the A.N.C. will reach a landmark accord. This week negotiators from 26 parties are expected to set the long-awaited date for South Africa's first free nonracial elections. That poll, expected to take place by next April, could elect Mandela President in a government of national unity. The Transitional Executive Council, the first stage of nonracial interim government, could be in place within the next few months...
Barring some dramatic turn of events, time for the far right is running out. The setting of an election date should significantly strengthen the country's < growing political center. With progress like that, the diehards may be no match for the majority of South Africans, including most whites, who want to put apartheid -- and conflict -- behind them...
...always really Owada. The prince wanted no other, and the imperial household had persuaded itself that her grandfather was blameless in the Chisso disaster and that any dalliances Masako-san may have had were unimportant. She, meanwhile, was laboring at the ministry, scrupulous about providing up-to-date information and taking pains with the phrasing of documents so as not to nettle other parties to a negotiation...
...final piece of business was to set a date...
While Western governments dawdle over assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Soros, 62, delivers -- perhaps as much as $300 million to date. From his pocket. No strings attached. Since 1984 the financier has provided everything from transmitters for independent radio stations in the former Yugoslavia to scholarships in the West for Eastern academics. Through his New York City-based Soros Foundation, he has funded struggling Czech artists as well as education projects in Albania and Ukraine. His philanthropy has made Soros "the most important single force affecting developments in the region," says Steve Larrabee, a specialist...