Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Though the Cabinet session was devoted almost entirely to testimonials to Thatcher, the group did conduct a piece of business: agreeing to double the British force in the gulf by sending 14,000 more troops there, including another armored brigade. In one of her last acts as Prime Minister, Thatcher showed Britain to be Washington's staunchest ally, with the second largest force deployed against Saddam Hussein...
Present uncertainties make rummaging in the past a growing preoccupation -- one that is reviving some nasty habits. Voices of anti-Semitism are again heard in the region, along with virulent nationalistic outbursts that disparage other minorities. Though only a handful of Poland's Jews remain out of a prewar population of 3 million -- and there are none in the administration -- it is not uncommon to hear people blaming problems on "all the Jews in government...
...Margaret Thatcher had a political son, he would be John Major, 47, who has been on the fast track ever since she made him Foreign Secretary in July 1989 and, the following October, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Though he has had relatively little Cabinet experience, Major is gunning for the premiership with the apparent blessing of his mentor...
...that often demands intricate, high-energy choreography of a kind that makes live vocalizing extremely difficult. Madonna, Janet Jackson and the New Kids on the Block have all resorted to some lip-syncing in their recent shows to see them through the rigors of dancing. They have never, though, used surrogates for the sound that bears their name...
...need to grieve, just as they would if they had lost a loved one. This is especially true of the solid, stable employee who has worked in one place for many years. "That person has a mental contract," says Maury Elvekrog, a management psychologist in Birmingham, Mich. "Even though no one told him that he would be taken care of, that's what he expected...