Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Helsinki, Finland, President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev agreed anew yesterday on "the path that the U.N. has set" in forcing Iraq to pull its troops out of Kuwait...
...argues against his giving up his new 19th province without a fight. For the moment Saddam appears to be calculating that the danger he faces from his population as food supplies run low is not yet as great as the perils he would face from his generals should he pull out of Kuwait with nothing to show...
...that took his corporate overseers by surprise, to replace Kathleen Sullivan with Paula Zahn. High expectations for a new prime-time show, Face to Face with Connie Chung, were dashed when Chung decided to cut back on her workload in an effort to conceive a child, forcing CBS to pull the show from its fall schedule...
Saddam may also be contemplating what Middle East experts have dubbed the Samson scenario, lashing out in desperate attempts to relieve the siege, even if his efforts pull him down too. Some suggest he might invade Jordan in order to provoke Israeli intervention and turn the struggle into an Arab-Israeli war. Others believe he might launch air and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil fields, take millions of barrels of oil out of production and create a world financial crisis. And there is widespread worry that he might torture or kill his hostages...
Discussion and sacrifice may not always alleviate conflict, but then the challenges of fitting two careers into one marriage never promised to be easy. "Each has got to pull some weight and make some compromises," says Johnnetta Cole, 53, who balances the demands of a marriage and five grown sons against her duties as president of Atlanta's Spelman College. "There's got to be an awful lot of dialogue because the rules are new." And they are always changing...