Word: act
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...atrocities was not an option. The Rambouillet meeting, she feels, was necessary to persuade the Europeans, who had never been comfortable aiding the Albanian Muslims, to use force to stop Serbia. By that criterion, Rambouillet succeeded: it enabled Albright to compel the Europeans (and her Washington colleagues) to act...
...where the crime is huge, where it's in a region that affects our stability--the stability of Europe is something that has been essential to the U.S. for the last 200 years--and where there is an organization capable of dealing with it. Just because you can't act everywhere doesn't mean you don't act anywhere. We're evolving these rules. There's not a doctrine that really sets this forth in an organized...
...studied kindness by observing a simple act--walking into a building--and noting whether people held the door open for each other...
...have sinister intentions. Rather, they were trying to prove that people would act like chimpanzees when they went...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataTIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl doubts the Fed will act Tuesday; Greenspan will probably settle for a gentle reminder that he's keeping an eye on inflationary pressures, just like always. And that should be enough. "All the worrying today about inflation is probably excessive," he says. "This spike in prices is mainly due to OPEC nations' production cuts in March, which they've been abiding by for once. May's numbers should be back to a comfortable level." Of course, other factors bear watching -- from signs of an economic recovery in Brazil, Thailand...