Word: reached
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...that's not all. Kennedy's bill would subject you to compensatory and punitive damages if you failed to meet the necessity test. Pragmatism might dictate that you cut your losses and reach a settlement with the complaintant. Or worse, you might avoid the whole bloody scenario by hiring applicants in accordance with the community's racial and sex composition. Little wonder that thoughtful critics have labled the act a "litigation bonanza" and a "quota bill...
...Crimson must finish in first or second place in the Metro League to reach the New England Championships. To do so, it will probably have to win the rest of its league matches...
...second half, Harvard's offense was somewhat out of kilter, pinned in its own zone by the Terrier fly-halfs' booming kicks. The Crimson kept the score low and the game within reach, but could not muster up any offensive firepower, hampered by injuries to Peccei and several other key players...
...there is no bombing of Iraqi chemical-weapons or nuclear facilities, electric power lines or dams in the north. Nor is there any ground fighting, at least initially. The Iraqi troops in Kuwait are totally cut off from the main army in Iraq proper. No supplies or reinforcements can reach them through the "death zone"; no radio messages or other communications can penetrate the electronic blanket. The Iraqis quickly withdraw -- or if they do not, U.S. airborne and amphibious assaults coupled with a ground attack flanking Kuwait break them up quickly (a lot of Iraqi tanks are destroyed...
...feels like the Falklands. During the weeks it took London's strike force to reach the South Atlantic in 1982, a flurry of diplomatic activity failed to avert war. Like George Bush in the current crisis, Britain's Margaret Thatcher refused to reward Argentina's aggression with a face-saving compromise, and Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri compounded his original miscalculation by insisting that "the British won't fight...