Word: particularizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...captured Iranian border town of Qasr-e-Shirin into the crucial southern theater where Iran's major oil facilities are situated. In the welter of claim and counterclaim, for example, the Iraqi officers repeatedly said their forces were on the verge of capturing Khorramshahr. Tehran called that particular claim a "hallucination" and insisted instead that the Iraqis were being forced to withdraw, leaving behind 16 tanks and armored personnel carriers and abundant stocks of ammunition. The truth, as foreign observers were able to establish at the scene, appeared to lie somewhere in between...
...evidently because of its large Persian minority. The other United Arab Emirates, as well as Oman, Qatar and Bahrain, all root under their breath for Iraq. Despite apprehensions about Saddam Hussein's long-term military and political ambitions, they sense a more imminent threat from Iran. Bahrain in particular is nervous about Tehran, not only because the mullahs have revived ancient Iranian claims to its territory but because Bahrain's Sunni Emir rules a population over half of whom are Shi'ites...
...scripts written by ex-actors it is bad, plagued by longeurs of dialogue between a kid who's too young to be interesting and a woman who lacks even that excuse. And a lot of "tough talk": "Okay you bananas" or an exchange like this: "Gimme a beer." "Any particular kind?" "Cold...
Parrette recalls that the older boys in particular refused to do traditional schoolwork. "They wouldn't read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, but they would read newspaper clipping enthusiastically," he added. The counselors adapted the "curriculum;" the older boys read the Boston Globe, Essence and Ebony and discussed topical issues while some of the younger kids continued to practice the three...
Jackson said students take particular exception to a sentence in the progress report stating that although the committee was formed in response to student demands for a Third World center, "that proposal, as such, is the stimulus rather than the substance of our conversation...