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Their campaign has two main purposes, it said: first, to find a pretext for the West to distance itself from Boris Yeltsin, whom it no longer needs as a bulwark against communism; and second, to dump Gore as a contender for the presidency.
If one measure of a community's success is, as I've been told, its ability to bring like minds together, then I must compliment Celebration, Fla., on at least the one count, of giving us a pretext to correspond.
Hitler used the fire as a pretext to eliminate Communist and all left-wing opposition from German political life.
The final step is coming up with a pretext for your decision.
They can either rely on outmoded studies to argue with conservative politicians, who, for the moment, have the more authoritative pretext for scrimping on day-care cost and quality.