Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal survival is your war aim, then surrender is always an option. We will never know exactly when the decision took root in the contrarian lobes of Slobodan Milosevic's brain. But three weeks ago, his body language changed. For weeks, whenever he received Russian special envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Serbian leader would loll arrogantly back in his seat and hold forth, filling the room with his self-serving discourse. Since launching a diplomatic shuttle on April 14, Chernomyrdin had spent dozens of fruitless hours with Milosevic, most of them listening. Then on May 19, the Russian detected a subtle...
...while Milosevic?s supporters have a vested interest in believing their own propaganda, the fact is they weren?t entirely defeated. After all, the peace deal codified in last week?s U.N. Security Council resolution involves considerable compromise on both sides, and NATO?s fundamental war aim, which was protecting ethnic Albanians from persecution in Kosovo, has demonstrably failed -- witness the streams of refugees -- and will take years to be reversed...
...looking at where each side started -- and not at their latest stated aim -- that a real measure of victory or loss can be made. NATO launched its bombs and rockets after Milosevic rejected the take-it-or-leave-it proposals put to him at Rambouillet in March and launched his vicious ethnic cleansing campaign. Rambouillet envisaged the transfer of control over Kosovo to NATO authority, and estimated that the territory?s future status would be decided in a referendum held within three years ?- which would have allowed the Kosovo Liberation Army to realize its goal of independence from Yugoslavia...
...aim, administrators said, was to free up more of students' time, relieving them of the burden of work requirements or loans. Harvard's plan dwarfed some other schools--in both size and mission. It was some three times larger than Yale's plan, for example...
...There will be another shopping option, and it's a bold step for the company," says Randy J. Gomes '02, who has worked at other Abercrombie locations. "Its aim has been more homogeneous--white, middle class. Harvard is a diverse environment and [A&F] can broaden its scope...