Word: presentment
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Bush tradition of excoriating dissenters for failing to be "team players," one reader criticized The Crimson for undermining the President's attempt to present a credible threat to Saddam. "To convince Saddam Hussein that we are willing to use force...seems to be the only way to persuade him to leave Kuwait peacefully," the reader wrote in a letter published December 8. "Therefore...we should show full support for our present policies and make Saddam believe that we American people are united behind our president...
Those who want Americans to present a spurious unified voice in the Gulf crisis are suggesting that we handcuff our wrists to the rear-view mirror. This strategy may sound appealing until we realize that the slightest miscalculation of Saddam's aims could mean that we would have to make good on our threat in order to maintain our credibility...
Despite expectations that the committee would present a short list of candidates to the Board of Overseers at its meeting yesterday, the search remains in the intermediate stages, the official said...
That's why Crimson staff editorials have attempted to present a thoughtful critique of contemporary liberalism, despite our editors' sympathy for many liberal causes...
Some of those present were detained a short while for questioning by members of different police units, but no arrests were made, police said...