Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to his record-setting performance in the 1650, Martin also competed in the 500-meter freestyle. The junior placed 11th in the event with a time of 4:21.73, earning him Honorable Mention All-America honors. Martin's time in the event was also good for fourth-best all time in Harvard history...
...better part of the past decade, ever since U.S. troops stumbled in Somalia, American thinking has conformed to the so-called Powell doctrine, named after former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell. His doctrine had two tenets: first, the "biggest s.o.b. on the block" rule, that America should enter fights with every bit of force available or not at all. Second, that the U.S. should never start a fight it didn't know how to end. Powell's doctrine was designed as a kind of notional vaccine against slow-build, slow-burn conflicts like Vietnam. But last...
...phone for 45 minutes--putting Clinton in a testy mood for most of the day. Yeltsin later lashed out at the U.S. and talked vaguely of radical measures he had considered and rejected--presumably sending arms and volunteers to Serbia. "On the moral level, we are above America," Yeltsin said. Moscow's desperation for influence and anger at the U.S. are partly the result of humiliation, reflecting Russia's plunge from superpower to pauper in just 10 years. Says former President and friend of the West Mikhail Gorbachev: "We are sliding toward a new cold...
...fury of the initial strikes--the Air Force's use of two types of heavy bombers against Milosevic in the first night of attack last week is something that never happened in the Gulf War--was designed to force Milosevic to buckle. He hasn't, and as America is learning, the easy part is over...
Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, insists there is plenty of growth ahead for his company and his industry. Dell cites Europe and South America as two areas where it can expand. The real problem, he says, is the impossibly high expectations of sales growth that analysts have set for his company. "They keep raising them and raising them. And you play that out logically, and at some point they put their guesses so high that they are not really achievable." Dell's first-quarter revenue is growing 38%, a spectacular number for most companies. But Wall Street...