Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mentor at Denver was the Czech refugee Josef Korbel, Madeleine Albright's father. This coincidence serves to highlight her differences with Albright, who has become the foremost proponent of an ideal-driven foreign policy. While Rice says that in foreign policy "America's values are extremely important," she hews closer to the tradition of Korbel and other realists, such as Hans Morgenthau, who place greater weight on defending strategic interests and tending to the balance of power...
...sold based on demographics. Suppose only relatively well-off, younger, tech-savvy viewers--the kind advertisers crave--adapt to PVRs. Bernoff posits that if X-Files fans bypass all those pricey tech ads, such highly acclaimed, high-budget programs could migrate to pay cable, replaced by more America's Favorite Self-Immolations--cheap programming aimed at downscale audiences...
...Ryder Cup to be held this week at the Country Club in Brookline, Mass., remains a feverishly awaited golfing event, no thanks to us--spelled U.S. While Europe's players have done their part to create a biennially thrilling competition, some of America's spoiled businessmen pros have voiced annoyance at having to endure three days of nerve-twanging match play for less pay than they'd make finishing 10th at the Greater Billings Open. Boo to them--and bring on Sergio...
...have been griping that they aren't fairly compensated to be embarrassed like that. Well, they're not. Twenty years ago, these matches had no commercial value. Now sources say the event will generate $63 million in revenues, some $17 million of which will go to the PGA of America and $5 million to $6 million of which will go to the host club. The U.S. players, meanwhile, each get a $5,000 stipend, which is clearly unfair, whether they plan to invest it in more greater-Orlando real estate or, as Woods and Duval nobly aver, in worthy causes...
Strategic calculation must affect where and how America intervenes in the world. Clinton's Timor policy--pressuring Indonesia into granting entry for non-American peacekeepers for a "permissive" occupation--is wise and restrained. It is a pity, however, that the President cannot say plainly what he has done...