Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...independent television producer named Adam Wolman published an ambivalent soliloquy about himself and the draft: "I know none of us has the luxury of clinging to pacifism in this world; I know it's not right to reap the joys of living here (or anywhere) without earning my keep . . . But I just can't see myself over there with a gun. I can't see myself running away either. But believe me, I'm thinking about...
...Gorbachev's countrymen who have a kind word for him usually qualify it with some comment to the effect that he is yesterday's man. As usual, they exaggerate. But even if Gorbachev is, before our eyes, passing into history, he can be consoled by the company he will keep...
...soil, even for the purpose of defending their kingdom, and a new region-wide defense pact is easier to conjure than to craft. The Kuwaitis would welcome an American presence indefinitely, but even they would prefer to avoid the complications that would invariably attend an open-ended effort to keep Saddam at home...
...living in eastern Germany, no amount of assistance and investment will be large enough or delivered fast enough. The number of unemployed in the region, estimated at half a million, threatens to expand further as enterprises come to the end of the interim period during which they had to keep underemployed workers on their payrolls. Some economists warn that half of the 8.5 million workers in the East could lose their jobs. Patience in the East is wearing thin: violence, including some directed against the small number of foreigners in the area, has been growing sharply...
This time around, even Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan jumped into the fray. Citing hundreds of angry letters and calls from citizens, Lujan said he wanted to keep the Yosemite Park and Curry concessionaire in the hands of Americans. MCA will be given a year to find an American buyer...