Word: disbanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dumping such plans on voters' doorsteps is often preferable to the alternative. The Navajo nation showed great restraint in rejecting its leaders' proposals to build as many as five casinos on its territory. And then there was Castlewood, Va., whose residents decided to disband the town ? and give themselves a refund. "The town should never been formed in the first place and we don't want it," said Mayor Roy Castle. "It was double taxation without representation." The people have spoken...
...battles are not tragedies. They are battles." Still, once the dead have been given their due, the calamity will serve as a powerful argument for Israelis who assert it is time to leave Lebanon. The Netanyahu administration says it will do just that if the government in Beirut will disband the militias and take responsibility for the security zone. Increasingly, Israelis are saying they cannot wait...
...moderates--in the Afrikaans parlance the verkramptes (inflexible right wing) and verligtes (enlightened moderates). In May one of the National Party's leading verligtes, Roelf Meyer, whom De Klerk had appointed head of a task team to redesign the party for the future, resigned when his ideas, including the disbanding of the party altogether, were rejected as too radical. Meyer, 50, heads a movement that will form a new political party later this month with a black group led by an ex-anc dissident. De Klerk believes Meyer is making a mistake in trying to rally an opposition political alliance...
...Harvard ultimately capitulated to the challenge, agreeing to disband the Overlap Group. Within a year, Harvard helped push a bill through Congress which superseded its agreement with the Justice Department and allowed it to again exchange tuition data and to agree not to offer merit based...
...Republican leaders, who had been skeptical all along that the President would bring the troops home as promised, have accused him of breaking his word even as evidence mounts that Bosnia remains unstable, putting Americans in jeopardy. After the recent Muslim and Serb clashes, U.S. troops were forced to disband a Muslim army unit and confiscate thousands of illegally hoarded weapons, while Muslims protesting the seizure threw rocks, spat at the soldiers, and lay in front of the trucks taking away their arms...