Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Bush and his aides talked about the showdown leading to a new world order. "If the nations of the world, acting together, continue as they have been, we will set in place the cornerstone of an international order more peaceful than any that we have known," said Bush in Helsinki...
...gulf states that had been the P.L.O.'s principal financiers. Abu Dhabi would not even let Arafat's plane touch down on its territory last week. Dubai grudgingly permitted a landing when the aircraft ran dangerously low on fuel, but only on the condition that Arafat not set foot outside the plane...
...accuse Iran-contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh of lacking perseverance. Last week Walsh petitioned a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to set aside the conviction of Oliver North on the grounds that the evidence might have been tainted by his televised testimony to Congress. If the earlier ruling stands, it could jeopardize the conviction of former National Security Adviser John Poindexter...
Bush's remarkable progress in welding together an international coalition to oppose Iraq's aggression has thrown into even higher relief the sluggish, indecisive pace he has set on domestic affairs since taking office. Lack of progress on the deficit is only one symptom of the governmental gridlock that has become the rule in Washington. Although both the House and Senate passed versions of legislation that would for the first time establish a national child-care system, the bill has been stalled in a conference committee. So has the Clean Air Act, which would curb noxious emissions into the atmosphere...
...transported New York to a paroxysm of unbridled capitalism, with all its attendant glitz and excess. At the height of the bull market, 60,000 new jobs were being created annually, luring droves of hyperambitious baby boomers to the canyons of Wall Street and midtown Manhattan. Nicknamed "the Erector set," a stable of real estate developers transformed the cityscape, throwing up 50 million sq. ft. of glistening office monoliths within Manhattan alone. New fortunes upended the city's social lineage, shoving Rockefeller and Astor aside for Trump, Steinberg and Kravis. The new barons redefined wealth beyond Jay Gatsby's wildest...