Word: put
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...pledge from the Kuwaiti government in exile to kick in an additional $5 billion, at least half of which would go to Desert Shield. Britain, though financially strapped, promised a further contribution in the form of additional troops rather than cash. Japanese officials told Brady they would put up more than the $1 billion they had pledged but did not specify an amount. West Germany, which has yet to contribute anything much and whose legislators are squawking at the idea of offering anything significant, is in for some arm twisting when Baker visits Bonn this week...
...that could change if the crisis has an unhappy ending: a prolonged stalemate combined with deep domestic recession, a settlement allowing Iraq to keep some fruits of aggression, a bloody and inconclusive war. Some experts fear that any such outcome would inspire a resurgence of isolationism that would put a speedy stop to any ideas of building a New World Order...
Bush has been willing to take huge risks, make tough decisions, spend money quickly and put American soldiers in danger in the Persian Gulf. By contrast, his domestic posture has been low profile, low risk and largely ineffectual. Why is there this contrast in the President's performance...
...trillion, 30 million citizens who live in abject poverty, the highest homicide rate in the industrialized world and disgracefully failing schools. Such problems, says Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, are the real measure of what fighting the cold war cost the U.S. "For half a century we put all our best energies and best minds into the issues of the cold war, just as now in the gulf we are putting them into the first post-cold war crisis. The results of that disparity of energy are apparent all around...
...gathering was to consider a maddeningly complex peace proposal put forth last month by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council that requires approval by all the Cambodian "parties" before it can go into effect. The main item on the Jakarta agenda was the plan's call for creation of a Supreme National Council intended to symbolize Cambodian nationhood during a long transition to peace...