Word: put
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Until the process is put in place, we should not change our policies," said Kerry, speaking to more than 40 participants in a jammed Lehman Hall conference room. "But we should indicate a willingness to move when South Africa legitimately moves...
...University was willing to go to a lot of trouble, Cabot says, to put together a "first class organization"--and to give the director himself essentially a free hand in making investment decisions...
...put yourself back in the room," Safire passionately insists, referring to both the Lincoln and Bush White Houses. "Say, I'm ((National Security Adviser)) Brent Scowcroft; I've just been told that there is a coup in Panama. And what happens? I place myself there as Scowcroft, and I'd call the Situation Room, I'd call the Joint Chiefs. Or say, I'm Abraham Lincoln, and a crisis arises. What happened in the room? I can take the diaries of ((Lincoln's Treasury Secretary)) Salmon P. Chase or ((Secretary of War)) Edwin Stanton...
...Most important, he promised to release the world's most famous prisoner, Nelson Mandela, now in his 28th year of imprisonment, though he did not say when. De Klerk legalized more than 60 banned organizations, lifted emergency restrictions on the press and on 374 political activists, suspended executions and put a six-month limit on detentions without trial. He also promised to lift the remaining elements of the state of emergency imposed in 1986 "as soon as circumstances justify it." Said De Klerk: "The season of violence is over. The time for reconstruction and reconciliation has arrived...
...until now had counted on Moscow's disapproval to slow down the unification parade. And it came at an awkward time for George Bush, who proposed last week that the U.S. reduce its troops in Europe from 305,000 to 225,000. As Democratic Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee put it, "If all Soviet troops are pulled out of Eastern Europe and East and West Germany are unified, then how long are you going to keep American troops in Europe...