Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...rogue states" - and to defend himself and Vice President Gore from Republican charges that they've left America wide open to all manner of future imagined nuclear missile threats - the President has to give the go-ahead this fall to start work on the site next spring. That timetable, though, is based on a legal interpretation that the proposed work is in violation of the ABM treaty. By that reading, if the Russians won't green-light the system, Washington would have to alert Moscow in the fall in order to comply with the requirement that either side give...
...site and pouring the concrete can be deemed to be within the bounds of the ABM treaty, then the White House can at once quiet Republican criticism by showing that it is building a missile defense system and insist to Moscow that it isn't violating the treaty. But though slick lawyering may give Clinton the opportunity to punt the issue of whether to scrap the ABM treaty into the next presidency, the Russians watch CNN, too - and they know that the concrete President Clinton would order poured on a frostbitten Alaskan island isn't for a barbecue...
...power. He won't be able to move on any foreign policy issues for at least two years, and he may actually have to play the anti-Israel card - which still mobilizes the Arab masses behind a leader - to stabilize his rule. That worked for his father, and even though he was the strongest leader Syria ever had, not even Hafez Assad was able to conclude a peace deal with Israel...
...independent. She is not Laura, the wife of Guy Stockdale, who sacrificed her identity to her marriage. Guy leaves Laura for Merrion, a choice that exposes the tenuousness of the bonds that hold his immediate family together. Trollope handles those connections with care, but at times it feels as though she, like every member of Guy's family, has chosen sides--and fallen a little in love with the mistress...
...says, "At that point, strength and endurance were very important...If I were twentysomething and saw a 63-year-old woman, I probably would assume she'd be the weak link." Judging from the expulsion vote, Boesch might soon follow: Christopher barely edged him out. And (spoiler alert!) though neither contestants nor CBS will say who gets bumped when, the Kansas City Star reported that B.B. Andersen, 64, of Mission Hills, Kans., returned home early in the show's taping...