Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Last week, though a majority of Senators were ready to approve the measure, Republicans mounted a filibuster. Concerned that most of the new votes would go to Democrats, they argued that the reform bill would make registration too easy, too expensive to administer and open to abuse. With only two Republicans -- Oregon's Mark Hatfield and Bob Packwood -- joining the Democrats in trying to end the filibuster, reform forces fell five short of the 60 needed to cut off debate. The bill died...
...still at pains to explain Hart's "philosophy" -- something that in the public mind boiled down to little more than unsafe sex -- and he makes no attempt to explain the self-destructive impulses involved in the Donna Rice affair. Similarly, Blumenthal accuses the Dukakis campaign of "intellectual" failures, though the Democratic nominee's mistakes mainly involved political, symbolic and emotional lapses...
Granted, but Israel is gambling nonetheless. Although Arens has boasted that "we are in a position to knock out of the air any Iraqi plane that may be coming our way," his country's air defenses are largely helpless against Iraqi missiles. And even though some Israeli officials believe Saddam may indeed have managed to equip those missiles with primitive chemical warheads -- contrary to Arens' assertion a few weeks ago -- the government still refuses to issue gas masks to the civilian population...
...Though the Education Department has yet to find the widespread discrimination expected by several Asian-American lobby groups, there is speculation that the inquiry into discriminatory admissions practices may spread to other universities...
...Though a necessary hardship, the abrupt "shock therapy" approach towards revamping the Polish economy, which the government began in January, is causing increasing unrest, Lewandowski said...