Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handcuffed Milosevic unraveling in a war-crimes courtroom ?- at least not any time soon. Even if Milosevic has been given no secret guarantees regarding his status as an indicted war criminal, the odds are slim that NATO would risk trying to arrest him. "Western countries were reluctant to allow their troops in Bosnia to act as the Hague Tribunal?s police force, and it?s unlikely that anybody will send commandos to arrest Milosevic," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. Indicted war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic are still at large in Bosnia six years after their indictment...
...managed to deliver on its promise to provide jobs and homes for the impoverished majority. Rather than trying to unseat the ANC, opposition parties have set their sights on the more realistic -? but by no means certain -? objective of denying it the two-thirds parliamentary majority that would allow it to unilaterally rewrite the country?s constitution...
...parent who is truly interested in the overall welfare of the family should allow children to play video games more than 30 minutes a day. Children must be taught to be well-rounded people with a wide variety of interests. LAURENCE A. CRAFT St. Louis...
...process that screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and director Roger Michell (Persuasion) allow to develop confidently, digressively. William, for example, finds himself obliged to pretend he's a journalist for a fox-hunting magazine interviewing all those connected with Anna's latest release, a horseless sci-fi epic, at a press junket. On another occasion, he's mistaken for the room-service waiter and patronized by her movie-star boyfriend (a funny, uncredited Alec Baldwin, trying hard for noblesse oblige and delightfully missing the note...
...education reformers have begun promoting smaller schools as a remedy for the alienation that many students experience when they are tossed into one of the college-size, 2,000-to-4,000-student behemoths often found these days in major cities and their suburbs. Smaller schools not only allow students and teachers to know one another better; they also have less crowding and competition for membership in bands, student councils, sports teams and other extracurricular activities through which students express and define themselves...